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Results look promising, a trust pays the expenses of the volunteers that travel to the prisons to orchestrate the efforts, so it looks like all the state has to provide is space and effort to manage the prisoners during the events. Would be interesting to see the results of a large scale study on the matter, less violence in prisons would mean prisons that are cheaper to run. However, they likely could not make such a program mandatory.
A Department of Corrections study of about 100 inmates who completed the program and were still in custody in late 2007 found they had 20 percent fewer disciplinary actions after the course, Cavanaugh said.
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"It works. We see a difference in the men and in the prison. It's calmer," he said of the course that about 10 percent of the prison's inmates have completed.
Results look promising, a trust pays the expenses of the volunteers that travel to the prisons to orchestrate the efforts, so it looks like all the state has to provide is space and effort to manage the prisoners during the events. Would be interesting to see the results of a large scale study on the matter, less violence in prisons would mean prisons that are cheaper to run. However, they likely could not make such a program mandatory.
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