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Post-release indicators focused upon program participant behavior upon release from
incarceration. Major post-release indicators examined were drug use and recidivism: whether
clients relapsed to drug use or not (including fiequency and type of drug use), were rearrested or
not, were reincarcerated or not, and amount of time elapsed before rearrest or reincarceration
(survival). We were also interested in monitoring participation in employment or employment-
related activities (e.g. job training) by the released offender. The Pennsylvania Board of Probation
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and Parole tracks paroled offenders fiom the time of their release fiom prison until their parole
period has expired. Rearrest data were accessible through State criminal records, maintained by the
Pennsylvania State Police.”
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The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) provides access to rearrest
data and dispositions.
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