This article provides a detailed description of Project Green Hope: Services for Women, Inc., a halfway house for women offenders and the only residential facility in New York City which serves both parolees and women referred by the courts. It also analyzes the effectiveness of ProjectGreen Hope by reporting on a non-experimental study involving women placed in the program by the courts as an alternative to incarceration over an approximately 2 1/2 year period.
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