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Women Dixon Springs (IL) Boot Camp ---photo slide show "The Impact Incarceration Program"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Photographer: Julia Marie Rendleman Project Title: "The Impact Incarceration Program" The Impact Incarceration Program at the Dixon Springs Boot Camp in Southern Illinois is a 120-day program where inmates participate in a military-like boot camp instead of serving their judge-mandated sentence, usually between three and seven years. While the facility primarily houses male inmates, there are currently 22 female inmates. ?I think the program can be a real benefit to the women because there are so few of them ? they get very personalized attention,? said Officer Teresa Robinson. The graduation rate for the female inmates is over 95% and the recidivism rate for three years with no new felony convictions is 23.3%, compared to 32.9% at a traditional correctional facility...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 05, 2010 (boomark / email).