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Greenhope maintains a 75% successful completion rate among parolees which is significantly higher than the 25% standard set for this population by the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services. This year, Greenhope also achieved a 65% job placement rate for its clientele.
Because of Greenhope's effectiveness, it was selected by the New York State Division of Parole as the program to receive and rehabilitate all female parolees coming out of prison who were natives of Harlem before their imprisonment. Greenhope also maintains a recidivism rate of less than 10%. Helping Children of Incarcerated Parents Children of incarcerated parents are six to eight times more likely than their peers to follow their parents into prison. Currently, 40% of the teenagers of incarcerated parents are involved in the criminal justice system. One of the major reasons for this is because children are separated from their mothers at a critical time in their lives and placed into foster care. In our new building, Greenhope will interrupt this cycle by allowing women to bring their children with them into treatment thereby keeping the family unit together and providing intense services to the children. Greenhope will also work with exceptional agencies such as Aspira to develop programs that will target teenagers of incarcerated parents. Cost Savings People of color make up 13% of the people who sell and use drugs in America. However, they make up over 85% of the people in prison. Women, in particular, are hardest hit; they are the fastest growing population in New York State prison. In the last 20 years their numbers have quadrupled. Ninety-one percent of this increase is due to the Rockefeller drug laws. In addition to the human costs of incarceration, the monetary burden is staggering. It costs $32,000 per year to incarcerate an inmate in a New York State prison and $64,000 to confine a woman in a New York City jail. Foster care for a prisoner's child costs $20,000 per year in New York State, adding to the cost of incarceration. In comparison, it costs Greenhope $20,000 per year to provide a client with residential services and $9,000 per year to provide a client with day treatment service. As a result of ATI services, Greenhope saved New York City a total of $1,148,743 and New York State $2,383,070 in fiscal period 2001-2002. As a result of the strong community corrections program at Greenhope, the long-term monetary savings are immeasurable for parolee and ATI women who stay out of prison. In an attempt to provide an alternative to prison to as many women as it could and because there are only a handful of women-centered treatment programs in the State, Greenhope, in 1996, expanded its residential program from 16 to 62 clients and its outpatient program from 24 to 70 clients. Greenhope's goal is to build lives, not prisons. *New York State Department of Correctional Services, The Sentencing Project. New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Legal Action Center (March 2002). |
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