Program Expands
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More than 500 first-time offenders were referred to the program, but as of January 1998 only one person returned to the court — a recividism rate of less than one percent.
........................... The program fills a unique need. “I’ve had very limited resources to deal with the problems facing our society, particularly those occasioned by rising crime,” a Judge said, noting that the traditional means for meting out justice have been restricted to fines and jail sentences, which have not proven effective in turning people away from a path of crime.
“I now have the ability to affect significant changes in our defendant population,” he said, “enabling them to lead productive, crime-free lives as a result of their participation in The Way to Happiness.”
The West Covina pilot project was part of the international Criminon criminal rehabilitation program, founded in 1972. (See “Wiping Out Crime.”) Due to the success of the pilot, on June 2, 1997, a Criminon Community Education Center was established in West Covina to continue the program, funded by the Los Angeles-based Association for Better Living and Education. Jenny, described above, was the first graduate of the program at the Community Education Center.
As a further result, Criminon — which means “no crime” — plans to establish Community Education Centers in Compton, Hollywood and Santa Monica. Additional centers will be set up in Washington, D.C.; Tampa, Florida and Portland, Oregon, with still more planned for other countries.
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