Monday, January 19, 2009
"KEEPING THEM OUT OF JAIL"--IS THIS PROGRAM COST EFFECTIVE?
The program featured in this article appears to be the kind of program that we could support. Among other things, it teaches job skills to former inmates so that they can earn money to meet their child support obligations. That, in turn, may help alleviate jail overcrowding, reduce the welfare rolls, lessen the need to construct more jails, and reduce the Family Court Docket. Our only question is whether the public is getting its money's worth on the $30,000--mostly taxpayer money--being spent to train each participant.
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Finally a program that helps rehabilitate offenders and helps them make their way back into society. It should be funded with tax dollars since we all end up paying one way or another for those that can't make a go of it.
Having hired a fellow on parole, I know first hand the difficulty he had keeping up with all the expenses he had to pay just to keep up with his parole. It's no wonder he slid back into the abyss after I gave him a place to live and a job. I tried to help every way I could but in the end the apartment he leased was trashed, his roommate was dealing and my charity cost me dollars and a loss of faith. However, after a year, this fellow recently showed up on my doorstep, now in step 8 of AA looking for a job and offering to pay me back with work. I am skeptical to say the least.
Perhaps this is the type of program that he might have benefited from, not lost the two years since his release of easing back into society and I would not have lost as much time, money or faith.
Having hired a fellow on parole, I know first hand the difficulty he had keeping up with all the expenses he had to pay just to keep up with his parole. It's no wonder he slid back into the abyss after I gave him a place to live and a job. I tried to help every way I could but in the end the apartment he leased was trashed, his roommate was dealing and my charity cost me dollars and a loss of faith. However, after a year, this fellow recently showed up on my doorstep, now in step 8 of AA looking for a job and offering to pay me back with work. I am skeptical to say the least.
Perhaps this is the type of program that he might have benefited from, not lost the two years since his release of easing back into society and I would not have lost as much time, money or faith.
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Finally a program that helps rehabilitate offenders and helps them make their way back into society. It should be funded with tax dollars since we all end up paying one way or another for those that can't make a go of it.
Having hired a fellow on parole, I know first hand the difficulty he had keeping up with all the expenses he had to pay just to keep up with his parole. It's no wonder he slid back into the abyss after I gave him a place to live and a job. I tried to help every way I could but in the end the apartment he leased was trashed, his roommate was dealing and my charity cost me dollars and a loss of faith. However, after a year, this fellow recently showed up on my doorstep, now in step 8 of AA looking for a job and offering to pay me back with work. I am skeptical to say the least.
Perhaps this is the type of program that he might have benefited from, not lost the two years since his release of easing back into society and I would not have lost as much time, money or faith.
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Having hired a fellow on parole, I know first hand the difficulty he had keeping up with all the expenses he had to pay just to keep up with his parole. It's no wonder he slid back into the abyss after I gave him a place to live and a job. I tried to help every way I could but in the end the apartment he leased was trashed, his roommate was dealing and my charity cost me dollars and a loss of faith. However, after a year, this fellow recently showed up on my doorstep, now in step 8 of AA looking for a job and offering to pay me back with work. I am skeptical to say the least.
Perhaps this is the type of program that he might have benefited from, not lost the two years since his release of easing back into society and I would not have lost as much time, money or faith.
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