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Article: Evaluating rehabilitation programs with the Solomon model.
- Article from:
- Corrections Compendium
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
- Author:
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Effective rehabilitation programs are becoming increasingly essential. State governments are facing a potential fiscal crisis resulting from a policy of unchecked growth in incarceration. "Without effective and efficient rehabilitation programs, the current morass of corrections will develop into a Gordian knot around the neck of society ... eventually strangling our children's education, our own health care and the nation's economy" (Windham School System, 1994).
Unfortunately, there is a popular public perception that prison rehabilitation programs do not work. This perception is partly due to the oft-cited findings of Martinson (1974), who declared after a ...