Second Chance New Mexico did worse than nothing: how was that possible?!

http://isr.unm.edu/cara/pdf/SecondChanceCenter_FinalReportv16_Final.pdf

Prison return rates for New Mexico, after 12 months from release date:

Without Scientology's Second Chance program, 12 months after release: 32.50%

With Scientology's Second Chance program, 12 months after release: 68.29%

Scientology therefore does =WORSE= than doing nothing at all. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!

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[h8uall66]

Are you telling me that there is a good chance that Kent Hovind is sitting in prison right now getting dumber? Holy crap! Dumb is like reverse-Kryptonite to that guy. He's like the Hulk, except in stead of anger making him stronger, it's stupidity. And worse still, his stupidity is contagious, just look at VenomFangX. He's like a Stupomotron bomb waiting to go off and deliver a deadly yield of 50 Megatards!

[jonesr999]

Did it accomplish the goal of loading the Scientology coffers with more gold? Then it accomplished something.

[jbxenia]

How could Narconon do worse than nothing?

Easy, if their program is entered with a lazy mentality of "Screw it, this program will take care of me and I don't have to put any effort into self-improvement!"

Then when their silly vitamin regimen does no good, the participant still isn't better AND has wasted time that they could have otherwise gone clean if they really wanted to.

[jesokingcryst]

Maybe it is the detachment from relity they impose on people (including themselves)?

[NicNasty1981]

It would be good if you could put links to all those studies in the description. Im sharing this by the way :P

[BKF666]

My post was on "slipcurve" comment "Perhaps once a person gets out of the grip of scientology and it's programs, they are depressed of all the mindfucking and they turn to drugs in order to deal with it."

I know the video was the failing of second chance. But in "slipcurve" defense a good chunk of the failing teachers from second chance that went to jail went on drug charges.

So "auchraw" "for the third or fourth time, I don't think this program has anything to do with drugs." It does relate.

[mikemikemofo]

who was phone?

[Desertphile]

"you forgot money which DP joked about."

18 years ago a woman in California used a $100 bill to buy groceries and the clerk called the sheriff. The sheriff went to the woman's house with a DEA "SWAT" team, kicked in the door, grabbed the woman, flung her to the floor, and when she screamed her spouse upstairs grabbed his gun and ran down to his wife and the DEA shot him dead. While the DEA was looking for drugs the telephone rang and the caller asked for the dead man. "He's busy" he was told.

[hollow0rld]

"Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy." (Rev21:11)

Men can´t change !

[RyuDarragh]

Yes. I should have mentioned anything in excess of 200 dollars and being a "suspected" drug seller or user can also be confiscated. "Why, Mr. Plaintif, do you have $2300 in $100 bills on your coffee table?"..

[mikemikemofo]

you forgot money which DP joked about. it's been said that over 75% of all paper currency is contaminated with some sort of snortable nasal love although it probably won't pass in court for paraphenalia. this fact was used in a 94 court case although i'd probably consider a rolled up hundred on the glass coffee table next to the pile of brazilian marching powder to be drug paraphenalia. if that isn't then the 3" piece of a mcdonalds straw is.

[SamTay04]

If people where saying that the program is worse than nothing by comparing the people in the second chance program to the general population rather than the rest of the prison population then your comparison would be more accurate.