NCJ Number
309102
Date Published
June 2024
Length
5 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