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Our Vision to Reduce Recidivism
Goal: Create funding for inmate employment via education, skills training, job placement, and business development.
Job objective: 200,000 new inmate jobs per year.
Funding source: Tariffs, employer incentives, and tax credits.
Vision: Mr. Mandela may be the best example of someone who left prison, and his vision improved the lives of millions.
- Imprisoned for 26 years (Rivonia), released in 1990.
- Nobel Peace Prize 1993, President of South Africa 1994-1999.
- Ended 50 years of government-sponsored Apartheid.
- World leader in social justice 2000-2013.
Next Steps
Objective: Modify two existing IRS codes via legislation in Congress.
1. Employer incentive for inmate training.
- GOAL: Modify WOTC section 51.
- Offer $ 25,000 to an employer to hire and train an inmate.
- Fund: $ 2.5 billion in job training programs per year.
- Create 100,000 new jobs per year via fifty States.
- IRS income reduction: $ 2.5 billion P/Y (100,000 trainings).
- Avoided cost to society: $ 15.0 billion (100,000@$150.000).
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2. Transferable tax credit to fund job training programs.
- Goal: Modify 26 U.S. Code § 6418.
- Raise $ 10.0 billion per year for program development.
- Create 100,000 new jobs per year via fifty States.
- Tax credit value: $ 1.00 par, $ 1.20 tax deduction value.
- IRS income reduction: $ 10.0 billion per year.
- Avoided cost to society: $ 15.0 billion (100,000@$150,000).
- Job training programs (25 programs).
- GED tutor program/USA
- Honey production /USA.
- Fish farm/USA.
- Wood products/USA.
- Produce farm/TX, LA, MS, Al, FL.
- Trade school/National.
- Building conversion/USA.
- Dam closure/USA.
- Landfill recycling/USA.
- WTE generation/USA.
- Military asset recycling/USA-International.
- Manufacturing/National.
- Cattle ranch/TX, LA, MS, AL, FL.
- Mine closure/National.
- Fire prevention/National.
- Oil well closure/National.
American Prisons
- Per the NIJ, approximately 600,000 people are released, and 240,000 (40%) return to prison within three years.
- 75 percent of all crimes are committed by high school dropouts yearly.
- High school dropouts are eight times more likely to be arrested than graduates.
- Approximately 67% of inmates have not completed high school (91% completed H.S. national average).
Cost of Recidivism, United States
Recidivism: The tendency of a convicted criminal to re-offend and return to prison.
Cost of recidivism: Projected cost to arrest, convict, and incarcerate is $ 300.0 billion annually. Projected cost to society is $ 1.0 trillion annually (see footnotes for detail).
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mass-incarceration-cost_n_57d82d99e4b09d7a687fde21
- https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/the-economic-costs-of-the-u-s-criminal-justice-system/
Cost of Not Completing School
-1.4 million students leave high school early per year.
-Societal cost: $ 80.0 billion per year (400,000 teen convictions).
-Support 350,000 students to obtain their GED per year.
-Offer $ 5,500 per student for GED tutors per year.
-IRS income reduction: $ 1.9 billion P/Y (350,000 GED trainings).
-Avoided cost to society: $ 52.5 billion (350,000@$150.000 EA).
-Term: Five years.
-https://slspotlight.com/opinion/2018/03/19/high-school-dropouts-more-likely-to-go-to-prison/
-https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/publications/trends-in-youth-arrests.pdf
Forest Fire Prevention
Objective: Expand fire breaks at Federal and State forests.
Objective: Replant fire-damaged lands.
Training: Use the fire prevention program for job training.
Jobs: Create 25,000 jobs per year (50 States).
Pay: $ 10.00 to $ 75.00 per hour.
State funding: $ 30.0 million per year.
National funding: $ 1.5 billion per year.
Term: Five years.
Prison Manufacturing J.V.
Imports: America imports $ 3.0 trillion annually.
Goal: Use seventy five existing P. I. factories for job training.
Manufacturing jobs: Create 5,000 jobs per year (50 States).
Sorting jobs: Create 5,000 jobs per year (50 States).
Pay: $ 10.00 to $ 75.00 per hour.
Customers: Retailers, HD, Walmart, Lowes, Ace, Target.
State funding: $ 5.0 million per year.
National funding: $ 250.0 million per year.
Term: Five years.
Prison Farms
Imports: America imports $ 28.0 billion annually (Produce, MX).
Goal: Use farming operations for job training.
New farms: 50 new farms at 500 acres each per year.
Pay: $ 10.00 to $ 75.00 per hour.
State funding: $ 5.0 million per year.
National funding: $ 250.0 million per year.
Products: Produce, flowers, spices, oils, rice, honey.
Jobs: Create 1,250 jobs per year.
Term: Five years.
Prison Cattle Ranch
Imports: America imports 2.9 billion lbs of beef annually.
Goal: Use ranch operations for job training.
Cattle: 500 head per year per ranch (Wagyu Beef).
Pay: $ 10.00 to $ 75.00 per hour.
State program cost: $ 5.0 million per year.
National program cost: $ 250.0 million per year.
Jobs: Create 1,250 jobs per year.
Term: Five years.
Military Asset Recycling
Goal: Clean, recycle or restore military assets.
Training: Use the clean-up process as a training program.
Project: Clean up 100 military bases (USA/International).
Project: Recycle 5,000 military aircraft in storage.
Project: Recycle 100 ships in storage.
Pay: $ 10.00 to $ 75.00 per hour.
State program cost: $ 5.0 million per year.
National program cost: $ 250.0 million per year.
Jobs: Create 5,000 jobs per year.
Term: Five years.
Abandoned Oil & Gas Well Closure
Problem: 1.0 million orphaned oil wells need closing.
Goal: Close 35,000 orphan oil & gas wells per year.
Goal: Clean and restore 35,000 well pads per year.
Training: Use the closure process for job training.
Pay: $ 10.00 to $ 75.00 per hour.
State program cost: $ 34.0 million per year.
National program cost: $ 1.7 billion per year.
Jobs: Create 2,000 jobs per year.
Term: Five years.
Abandoned Mine Closure
Problem: 465,000 orphaned mines need closing.
Goal: Close 60,000 abandoned mines per year.
Goal: Clean and restore 60,000 mining sites per year.
Training: Use the closure process for job training.
Pay: $ 10.00 to $ 75.00 per hour.
State program cost: $ 30.0 million per year.
National program cost: $ 1.5 billion per year.
Jobs: Create 5,000 jobs per year.
Term: Five years.