Restoring Promise: Positive Research Results from a Program that Aims to Transform Correctional Culture

• NCJ Number: 309102
• Author(s): Ryan Shanahan; Selma Djokovic; Lidia Vasquez
• Date Published: June 2024
• Length: 67 pages
• Grant Number(s): 2018-75-CX-0021
• Agencies: NIJ-Sponsored
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical); Report (Grant Sponsored)
• Award: Restoring Promise: A randomized control trial examining the impact of innovative young adult housing on reducing violence

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.