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On an average day more than fourteen hundred inmates of North Carolina prisons leave their cells to work in regular jobs in the private sector. This work release program, the largest and oldest of its kind' in the nation, saves the state a substantial amount of money and provides inmates with an opportulity to gain valuable work experience while supporting their dependents and saving money towards the clay of their release. My study of the post-release criminal activities of North Carolina prisoners demonstrates that this program provides an additional benefit: it has the effect of reducing the propensity of releasees to commit serious crimes. This finding serves as a rebuttal to the claim that "nothing works" in the field of criminal rehabilitation. Something does work, and, fortuitously, it is a program that is generally compatible with other objectives of the criminal justice system, including incapacitation, deterrence, and reasonable criminal justice system budgets. The last few years have seen an aura of self-doubt. and questioning pervade this country's correctional system. Previously this system was selfconfident in its mission to rehabilitate offenders. The correctional system under the rehabilitative philosophy saw criminal offenders as "sick" people who were to be cured through treatment. Correctional treatment took the form of a variety of rehabilitative programs. Three developments since the early 1960s have contributed to the recent questioning. First, a substantial body of empirical literature emerged which seemed to indicate that deterrence works. These findings found a theoretical justification with the emergence of the economic model of crime in the late 1960s. Second, a large number of rehabilitative program evaluations appeared

Work Release in North Carolina. A Program That Works!