Description & History
The goal of Project Redirect is to reduce recidivism and enhance community safety, while providing a cost effective alternative to incarceration – estimated at $40,000.00 for each one of the approximate twenty participants in Project Redirect annually – a savings to New York State of about $800,000.00 per year.
The program includes:
- Mandatory supervised weekly group meetings with staff in the Gang Bureau
- Life skills and anger management group sessions
- Weekly testing to determine that all participants are drug free
- Substance abuse counseling when necessary
- Nightly curfew checks
- Community service
- Required completion of High School or GED
- Employment and higher education