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| Inmate rehabilitation program needs changes, officials say |
| By bellinghamherald.com- Jordan Schrader |
| Published: 04/07/2015 |
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Washington state prisons are rethinking a program designed to change inmates’ thinking. Independent researchers and state officials say the pilot program tested on hundreds of inmates at Eastern Washington’s Coyote Ridge and Airway Heights corrections centers must be restructured before the program can expand. “The first thing we are going to do is fix the two pilots, Airway and Coyote,” said Dan Pacholke, deputy secretary of the Department of Corrections. The agency is drawing up a “corrective action plan” based on recommendations in a March report from Washington State University researchers, who said the program did not achieve lasting changes in inmate behavior. Read More. |
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