Drew House, an alternative-to-incarceration program that allows women charged with felonies to remain with their children while they complete court-mandated programs, should be scaled up and replicated, according to a new Columbia University study on the initiative that was pioneered by Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes.
Calling Drew House a “model program,” lead researcher Lorie S. Goshin and her co-investigator, Mary W. Byrne, found that “allowing select women charged with felonies and their children to reside in Drew House strengthened these families without compromising public safety.”
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