Friday, April 17, 2015

Press Release For The New Work Furlough Program


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                         
 
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT :           Guy Neighbors

                                                                                    Oaks of Justice, LLC

                                                                                    304 461 4740 / Fax 408-709-2906

                                                                                    31 Fairway View, Peterstown, WV 24963

 

 

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.

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