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OAKS
OF JUSTICE, LLC WORK FURLOUGH PROGRAM A SOLUTION TO PRISON
OVERCROWDING, FAMILIES SEPARATED AND
A SAVINGS FOR THE GOVERNMENT
ALDERSON,
WV…An Alderson Prison inmate has created a viable solution for prison reform: the
Oaks of Justice, LLC Program, a newly formed Not-For-Profit
entity formed exclusively to provide services of a Work Furlough Program (WFP)
to the Bureau of Prisons, (BOP). While initially funded by a private charitable
foundation, WFP will coordinate with a major university to compile insightful
demographics to be used by Governmental agencies as well as educational
institutions, and private agencies to accurately graph and track the success of
the program participants. This will be done by compiling precise consistent
data or rates of recidivism, employment success, and job retention as well as
re- integration into society. The Program plans the following:
To minimize the social,
psychological and economic damages to children, and families by placing the
parents and care givers back into homes with limitations imposed to meet
standards of sentencing and to allow the individual increased responsibilities
by being productive in the community.
To reduce the cost and burden to
U.S. Tax payers by higher welfare, housing, and health care for family members
of incarcerated inmates.
To relieve inmate families of added
expenses needed to support the inmate that include communications from the
prison, visitation, restitution, dental/healthcare co-pays, and basic hygiene
items such as over-the-counter medications not provided by the BOP. This
Proposal deals positively with the economics, emotional, social, political, and
safety issues within the current system.
To allow WFP participants to receive
as well as pay for their own medical services as permissible by USSC standards,
insuring the inmate is the responsible party for self-care and not the
taxpayers (as currently in place by city and State governments. Authority for
this WFP is granted by 18 U.S.C. 3622, granted by the DOJ, 18 U.S.C. 4082 (2)
to the Director of the BOP by 28 CFR 096(D) and under 570.33 (A, C-J).
To reduce BOP’s burden of additional
expenses in dealing with the 40% overcrowding and also create a safer
environment for staff and inmates.
To furnish a separate trust fund
with contributions of $20.00(Twenty Dollars) from each participant from an
application fee to be used to increase educational and recreational programs in
the institution.
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To provide demographics statistics
for study and review by various agencies that will increase the accurate
allocation of funding and sentencing structure.
WFP will provide full intense 24/7
State of the Art Security including but is not limited to GPS (Global
Positioning Systems) and Personal Locator Devices (PLD) regular communications
and unscheduled person-to-person contact.
Most important these goals will be
accomplished at No Cost to the DOJ, BOP, or any local, State or Federal
agencies. The institution will be reimbursed for each application with which
they assist in faxing, copying, etc. All applications will be processed by WFP and
will not be reliant upon the institution staff. Applications, instructions,
rules, etc. will be made available through one of the online websites by which
each applicant can print through Corrlinks. All institutions will participate
making WFP available throughout the country to qualified inmates.
This program is structured for a
seven (7) year period with two (2) five (5) year renewals. BOP agrees not to
enter into any other agreements or form any programs of this nature on its own
behalf that would interfere with the accuracy of the WFP data being compiled. It is only for non-violent,
first-time offenders.
