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The Vision !
Every year, 600,000 individuals are released from State prisons across the United States. Within five years of release, 300,000 individuals (50%) are arrested, convicted, and incarcerated for the second or third time. Image: Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton.
National cost: $ 60.0 billion annually and 300,000 to 900,000 victims.
Annual Objectives Per State.
- Reduce recidivism from 50% to 25% via intensive job training.
- Investment budget: $ 600.0 million per year.
- Six year job training pilot.
- Annual Funding.
- Fund 10,000 inmate job trainings (Prison Industry).
- Fund 10,000 inmate GED - HISET high school graduations.
- Fund 10,000 trade school courses for HS students.
- Fund 80,000 employer job incentives.
- Fund 4,000 new parole - transitional apartments.
- Fund 300 inmate call center to support employer initiative.
- Fund existing P.I. trade school programs.
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 - Job Training).
- Existing Law: Inflation Reduction Act.
- Program funding from selling Federal Tax Credits.
- Annual cost: $ 600.0 million.
- Program population: 20,000 (10,000 inmates, 10,000 graduations).
- Avoided cost: $ 3.0 billion (15,000 people @ $200,000 each).
- Recidivism rate goal: 25% from 50% national average.
2. Amend WOTC section 51 (Employer Incentive).
- Law change: Increase $ 2,000 incentive to $25,000 per person.
- Product: 80,000 employer incentives annually (Multi State).
- Incentivize 80,000 employers to hire former inmates.
- The employer incentive from the IRS.
- Employer Tax incentive: $ 25,000 per employee.
- Annual IRS cost: $ 2.0 billion (80,000 people @ $25,000 each).
- Avoided cost: $ 12.0 billion (60,000 people @ $200,000 each).
- Recidivism rate goal: 25% from 50% national average.
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.
- Annual avoided cost by changing two laws: $ 15.0 billion.
1. Job Training - High School Graduation - HS Job Trainings.
- Program population: 10,000 (10,000 inmates)
- Program population: 10,000 high school grads job trainings.
- Avoided cost: $ 3.0 billion (15,000 people @ $200,000 each).
2. Amend WOTC section 51 (Employer Incentive).
- Incentivize 80,000 employers to hire former inmates.
- The employer incentive from the IRS.
- Employer Tax incentive: $ 25,000 per employee.
- Annual IRS cost: $ 2.0 billion (80,000 people @ $25,000 each).
- Avoided cost: $ 12.0 billion (60,000 people @ $200,000 each).