2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 61 - PRISONS AND PAROLE
Chapter 45 - Recidivism Risk Reduction Incentive
Section 4509 - Evaluation

§ 4509.  Evaluation.

(a)  General rule.--The department, the board and the commission shall monitor and evaluate the recidivism risk reduction incentive programs. Evaluations under this section should be scientifically rigorous and seek to determine the effectiveness of the programs, including whether specific recidivism risk reduction incentive programs have reduced the recidivism rates of the program participants as compared to previously incarcerated and similarly situated inmates.

(b)  Publication.--The department, the board and the commission shall make evaluations conducted under this section and underlying data available to the public. The publicly available data and evaluations shall comply with generally accepted practices of the research community, including expectations relating to subject privacy and identifying information.

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