NCJ Number
309102
Date Published
June 2024
Length
67 pages
Annotation
This article describes the Restoring Promise program, which was designed to create safer and more structured lives and allow for a supportive community environment for young adults, aged 18 to 25, in correctional facilities; it describes how the Restoring Promise program addresses the need for correctional solutions to counter risk of physical and psychological harms.
Abstract
A program designed to create safer, more structured lives for young people in correctional facilities is showing early promise as a flexible model for institutional reform that can reduce violence and the use of restrictive housing.
Date Published: June 1, 2024