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The Vision!
Every year, 600,000 individuals are released. Within five years of release, 300,000 individuals (50%) are arrested, convicted, and incarcerated for the second or third time. The national cost is $ 60.0 billion annually, affecting 300,000 to 900,000 victims—image: Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton.
Annual Objectives Per State:
- Reduce recidivism from 50% to 25% through intensive job training.
- Investment budget: $ 600.0 million annually.
- Six-year pilot program for job training.
- Support 10,000 inmate job training programs annually.
- Support 10,000 inmate high school GED graduations annually.
- Provide incentives for 80,000 employer-sponsored jobs.
- Fund 300 inmate call center to support employer initiatives.
- Fund 1,000 new parole and transitional apartments.
How To Fund Our Vision!
Objective: Amend two existing Federal laws and fund the proposed initiatives to reduce recidivism, State by State.
1. Amend Public Law 117-169 (Federal Tax Credit Funding).
- Sell $ 600.0 million in Federal Tax Credits to fund initiatives.
- Program population: 20,000 (Inmate job training and GED graduations).
- Avoided cost: $ 3.0 billion (15,000 people @ $200,000 each).
2. Amend WOTC section 51 (Employer Incentive).
- Sell $ 160.0 million in employer incentives ($ 2,000 each, 80,000 units).
- Law change: Increase the $2,000 incentive to $25,000 per person.
- Incentivize 80,000 employers to hire former inmates.
- 80,000 annual job trainings.
- Annual IRS cost: $ 2.0 billion (80,000 people @ $25,000 each).
- Annual avoided cost: $ 12.0 billion (60,000 people @ $200,000 each).
The Societal Cost!
Objective: Amend two existing Federal laws and fund the proposed initiatives to reduce recidivism, State by State.
- Image: $ 1.0 billion dollars in cash, 11 and 3/4 pallets.
- Image: 1.0 billion dollars weighs approximately 22,000 lbs.
- Program cost/investment: $ 600.0 million, funded by federal tax credits.
- Annual avoided cost by changing two laws: $ 15.0 billion.
- 75,000 people with job training, education and employer incentives.
State/DOC Cost Savings!
Evaluate a cost-sharing agreement for the "GED Inmate High School Education" initiative.
Evaluate a cost-sharing agreement for the "Inmate Trade School Workforce Development" initiative.