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Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) is an intensive supervision program that aims to reduce crime and drug use while saving taxpayers' dollars spent on jail and prison costs. HOPE deals with offenders who have been identified as likely to violate the conditions of their probation or community supervision.
One of the first SCF programs was Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE), created in Honolulu in 2004 by Judge Steven Alm. In 2009 the program was evaluated by Angela Hawken and Mark Kleiman. They found that, compared with probationers supervised as usual, HOPE probationers were: 55% less likely to be arrested for a new crime
Probation in criminal law is a period of supervision over an offender, ... In 1959, the new states of Alaska and Hawaii, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, ...
Alm subsequently served as a judge on the Hawaii First Circuit Court [4] from 2001 to 2016. [5] In 2004, he founded Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE), a program intended to reduce violations of probation by people at high risk for recidivism, especially people arrested for drug-related crimes.
Jan. 1—New laws taking effect today include an increase in the state minimum wage to $14 an hour, gender-neutral language for birth and marriage certificates, and a requirement that Hawaii law ...
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Mar. 9—Kinoshita pleaded guilty to the drug charges Oct. 27 in U.S. District Court. A Hilo man who "lived a life of crime for 41 years " was sentenced to nearly 13 years in federal prison ...
Jul. 12—A new law took effect Tuesday prohibiting nepotism across state government—particularly for the 60, 000 employees in the executive branch—but notably exempts the state Legislature ...