Alternative to Incarceration

Solution:

Cost effective to a fault, our solutions are under $10.00 per day/per participant and offers life-changes benefiting family and community.

Allow the 17 – 24 year old low-level offenders who have made a mistake to reestablish their path to freedom and success without life-long shackles.

Situation:

Our criminal justice and prison system is in crisis. 

Low level offenders housed in county jails and prisons allow revolving doors to swing with reckless abandon where reintegration is no longer part of the equation.

Today’s approach is ineffective and costly: Billions of dollars are wasted on housing prisoners who swiftly return to incarceration.

 Task:

We must break this cycle.

Research and practical knowledge is quite clear: pretrial diversion programs are aneffective and affordable option for eligible offenders.
Effective programs teach three things:

• The individual needs to change
• Change can become a reality
• Means to change will become the new path

2nd Chance University provides tools to gain personal and professional success, especially for those who are justice-involved.

 Action:

Our alternative to incarceration programs lead participants to

• Commitment,
• Hope,
• Empowerment, and
• Employment.

Knowing many who have made wrong choices are victims beyond their control, we rely on trauma informed care, behavioral best-practice approaches and cultural and holistic theories to guide each onto their chosen path.

Result:

In opposition to the lock’em up strategy, alternatives to incarceration is proven to save lives, families, community safety, and huge amounts of tax payer money.