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Our Vision
Every year, more than 600,000 individuals are released from prisons across the United States. Within five years of release, 50% are arrested, convicted, and incarcerated for the second time.
The national cost is estimated at $200,000 per person (arrest, conviction, five years in prison, parole), or $ 60.0 billion annually.
Annual Objectives Per State.
- Fund $ 600.0 million per year.
- Six year pilot via one state.
- Reduce recidivism from 50% to 25%.
- Annual Funding.
- Fund 10,000 inmate job trainings.
- Fund 10,000 GED high school graduations.
- Fund 50,000 employer job incentives.
- Fund 2,000 new parole apartments.
- Fund 250 person call center.
- Fund existing P.I. trade school programs.
- Fund existing or new prison farms, cattle ranches.
- Fund mentor - mentee programs.
Societal Cost of Not Completing High School
Objective: Amend Law 117-169 (Tax Credit Funding.
- 75 % of crimes are committed by high school dropouts.
- Eight times more likely to be arrested than H.S. graduates.
- 82% of inmates have not completed high school.
- Fund 10,000 GED graduations per state annually.
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 (Tax Credit Funding - Job Training).
- Existing Law: Inflation Reduction Act.
- Fund 10,000 inmate job trainings annually.
- Fund recidivism programs.
- Annual cash cost: $ 600.0 million (10,000 @ $60,000 each).
- Avoided cost: $ 1.5 billion (7,500 people @ $200,000 each).
- Recidivism rate 25%.
2. Amend WOTC section 51 (Employer Incentive).
- Law change: Increase $ 2,000 to $25,000 per person.
- Incentivize 50,000 employers to hire former inmates.
- Employer Tax incentive: $ 25,000 per employee.
- Annual IRS cost: $ 1.2 billion (50,000 people @ $25,000 each).
- Avoided cost: $ 7.5 billion (37,500 people @ $200,000 each).
- Recidivism rate 25%.