Slate: Hawaii’s HOPE Program ‘Probation That Works’

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Slate has posted this article, titled “Probation That Works: Swift and certain punishment reduces crime. Parolees love it.”

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“Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement, or HOPE, is based on simple precepts that the judge who created it likened to “Parenting 101.” It immediately jails, for no more than three or four days, offenders who miss a probation appointment or fail a drug test. Operating under the theory that judicial punishment should be “swift, certain, and proportionate,” it seeks to turn around behavior that the system ordinarily, though inadvertently, seems to perpetuate. …”

Read Civil Beat’s story on the program and Judge Steve Alm, The Man From HOPE.

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