BOOSTS LEARNING OUTCOMES
Increase employment rates of justice-involved individuals. Currently, between 60 percent and 75 percent of formerly incarcerated individuals remain unemployed one year after their release.
REDUCES INCARCERATION LEVELS
as less individuals return. Individuals that are employed two months after reentry were half as likely to recidivate.
REDUCES COST
If states’ spending on corrections had stayed the same since the mid-1980s in inflation-adjusted terms, states would have an additional $28 billion each year to put toward priorities such as education and infrastructure.
Case Studies
Arkansas Correctional School
The APDS tablet has proven to be an excellent supplemental tool to elevate teaching and boost learner outcomes within Northwest Arkansas Community Corrections Center. Among incarcerated learners at the facility, tablet users on average saw a 57% increase in GED pass rates over non-tablet users.
Utah Department of Corrections
In 2017, APDS began a landmark post-release use case with the Utah Department of Corrections' Adult Probation and Parole Division to manage reentry resources and ensure conditions of parole are met. Program delivery begins prior to release and extends into parole. To date, reentry plan completion rates have increased by 70%. Tablets allow for a continued delivery of targeted, monitored programming, as well as provide robust case management services and help offenders communicate with their parole officers.
NYC Department of Correction
The education provided via the APDS platform equips every individual for successful transition from incarceration to the workforce, and it improves the overall environment in the jail facilities by reducing idle time and stimulating purposeful activity, a key initiative of the DOC Commissioner, Vinny Schiraldi.
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