Evaluating the Minnesota Comprehensive Offender Reentry Plan (MCORP): Results from a Randomized Experiment
By G. Duwe. 2012
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Using a randomized experimental design, this study evaluated the effectiveness of the Minnesota Comprehensive Offender Reentry Plan (MCORP), an offender reentry pilot project implemented in 2008. In an effort to reduce recidivism, MCORP attempted to increase offender access to community services and programming by producing greater case management collaboration between caseworkers in prison and supervision agents in the community. The results showed that MCORP significantly improved employment rates, decreased homelessness, broadened offenders’ systems of social support, and increased the extent to which offenders participated in community support programming (mentoring, restorative justice services, and faith‐based programming). The findings further revealed that MCORP significantly reduced all three types of reoffending (rearrest, reconviction, and new offense reincarcerations) but did not have a significant impact on supervision revocations for technical violations. The evidence suggests that MCORP was effective in decreasing reoffending largely because it increased the extent to which offenders were employed, involved in community support programming, and able to develop systems of social support.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science
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- Blessed Be the Social Tie That Binds (2013, background): “Indeed, evaluations of drug treatment (Inciardi, Martin, & Butzin, 2004), employment programming (Duwe, in press), and reentry programming in general (Duwe, 2011) have shown that connecting programming delivered in the community to that provided in prison produces better recidivism outcomes.”
- Homelessness and Reentry (2014, background): “…2006; Lattimore et al., 2005; Winterfield et al., 2006), significantly reduce recidivism (Bouffard & Bergeron, 2006; Braga, Piehl, & Hureau, 2009; Duwe, 2012), and significantly increase the time to failure in the community (Braga et al., 2009), but have no significant effect on technical…”
- Incarcerated Fathers (2013, background): “Research has also demonstrated a link between family support after release and positive postrelease outcomes such as employment success and substance use avoidance (Berg & Huebner, 2011; Duwe, 2011; Nelson, Deess & Allen, 1999; Sullivan et al., 2002; Visher, Kachnowski, La Vigne, & Travis, 2004).”