House of Hope — Israel Prison Service's In-Prison Therapeutic Community for Domestic-Violence Offenders

The House of Hope is the main rehabilitation programme for men imprisoned for domestic violence in the Israel Prison Service. Participants spend about one year in a hierarchical therapeutic community inside a purpose-built, lower-stress prison setting, combining cognitive-behavioural, psychoeducational and psychodynamic therapies in varied formats, tailored to offender characteristics.
Evidence: Hasisi, Shoham, Weisburd, Haviv and Zelig (Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2016) compared participants with a propensity-score-matched sample of prisoners released 2004-2012 and report significantly lower reincarceration and rearrest for up to four years after release. A later mixed-methods study (International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2018) attributes success to the combination of components, staff professionalism and stability, and the physical design of the unit.
Caveats: the evidence is quasi-experimental rather than randomised, covers a prison population only (not community-based programmes), and the sources consulted do not publish victim-safety outcomes; selection into the programme cannot be fully excluded.

Read the full analysis: https://cris.huji.ac.il/en/publications/the-care-package-prison-domestic-violence-programs-and-recidivism/