Pennsylvania Community Correction Center Recidivism Rates Down By 11.3%

Between July 2014 and June 2015, recidivism rates among Pennsylvania state prisoners released from the Department of Corrections (DOC) 42 contracted community corrections centers dropped from 24% to 21.3%, for a reduction of 11.3%. Six of the centers reduced recidivism rates below their target baseline and qualified for a performance incentive that increased their DOC per diem rate by one percent. One center was placed on warning status because its recidivism rates were above the established baseline.

In February 2013, the DOC reported that 67% of offenders sent to community corrections centers, also called halfway houses, were rearrested . . .