Comments on: Gemeinschaft update

By: Jeremy Aldrich

Jeremy Aldrich — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:19:16 +0000

Sarah, sorry for the delay in answering your question. I’ve been trying to contact Gemeinschaft directly, but haven’t had success so far. I did read this morning that the march will now be on October 29 (Wednesday) starting at 10. Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll be able to make it since I’m working then.

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- of fighting and saving (gemeinschaft). « the state — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:09:39 +0000

[...] has been told it will be shut down in January due to state budget cuts. Despite the math (thanks to Jeremy Aldrich of hburg news): A quick math exercise demonstrates the point. Gemeinschaft currently has around 60 residents [...]

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By: hburgnews.com » Gemeinshaft video tour

hburgnews.com » Gemeinshaft video tour — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:20:52 +0000

[...] an encode error toward the end) but it gives insight into what the Gemeinschaft does and what it means to the men who live there. The state has announced that they will cut the budget within sixty days [...]

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-of gemeinschaft « the state — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:34:57 +0000

[...] Tuesday, 21 October 2008, 10:34 Filed under: -of jgrimsrud, -of politik hburg news has an update on the harrisonburg half-way house No Comments so far Leave a comment RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI [...]

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By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:03:06 +0000

Do you have more information about the march? I saw information elsewhere with the date of the 29th. Do you know details about the time, route, goals, etc?

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By: Emmy

Emmy — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:50:49 +0000

I drove past the house this afternoon and there was a large home made sign asking for help in saving the house. I was watching the road so I couldn’t read the whole thing. I’ll try to get over there and take a picture.

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By: Jeremy Aldrich

Jeremy Aldrich — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:31:57 +0000

I don’t want everyone’s eyes to glaze over from seeing so much math, but if Gemeinschaft lowers the recidivism rate for 6 of its current residents (just 10%), then normal state incarceration actually becomes almost twice as expensive a choice.

In this PowerPoint presentation I just found, there are some results from a study by Dr. Peggy Plass of JMU in 2004 which show that Gemeinschaft graduates had lower re-arrest rates than cohorts completing normal incarceration by about 10%, lower reconviction rates by about 14%, and lower recommitment rates (return to jail?) by about 9%. It also showed that Gemeinschaft graduates who did reoffend were able to hold off reoffenses for about six months longer than peers in normal incarceration.

This really seems like a no-brainer to me in terms of cost savings to the state.

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By: finnegan

finnegan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:15:12 +0000

Thanks for the update.

Looking at the DNR this morning, it seems Sen. Emmett Hanger doesn’t want Gemeinschaft to close, either.

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