Hawaii's HOPE Program
Public Safety
- Public Safety Performance Project
- Contact Krissi Jimroglou 202.540.6416
- February 15, 2010
Established in 2004 by Judge Steven S. Alm of the First Circuit Court, Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program identifies probationers at high risk of violating the conditions of their community supervision, and deters them from using drugs and committing crimes with frequent and random drug tests backed up by swift, certain and short jail stays.
New research shows that HOPE probationers were significantly less likely to be arrested for a new crime, to use drugs and to have their probation revoked. Pew's research related to HOPE is listed below as well as in-depth media coverage.
Visit the Public Safety Performance Project page to learn more.
- Date:
- February 15, 2010
- Contact:
- Krissi Jimroglou | 202.540.6416
- Project:
- Public Safety Performance Project
- Issues:
- Recidivism, Community Supervision
- State:
- Hawaii
- Report:
- The Impact of Hawaii's HOPE Program on Drug Use, Crime and Recidivism, Evaluation of HOPE Probation
Resources
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January 15, 2010
The Impact of Hawaii's HOPE Program on Drug Use, Crime and Recidivism
New research on Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program shows that HOPE probationers served or were sentenced to an average of 48 percent fewer days in jail and prison. more
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- Media Coverage
- Public Safety Performance Project
Prisoners of Parole
In 2004, Steven Alm, a state trial judge in Hawaii, was frustrated with the cases on his docket. Nearly half of the people appearing before him were convicted offenders with drug problems who had been sentenced to probation rather than prison and then repeatedly violated the terms of that probation by missing appointments or testing positive for drugs.
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- Media Coverage
- Public Safety Performance Project
Swift and Certain: Hawaii's Probation Experiment
Steven Alm was no courtroom novice when he started handling felony cases as a circuit judge in Hawaii. He'd already been a judge for three years, and U.S. Attorney for seven years before that.
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August 1, 2008
Evaluation of HOPE Probation
Preliminary findings show that probationers assigned to a HOPE caseload perform significantly better than criminal offenders assigned to probation-as-usual.
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