Why We are Here

Transitions, TLC

Changing the World - One Person at a Time

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Why We Are Here

Our Faith

· Societies moral example should be modeled by Christ’s Living Body, the Church

· In the United States, the penitentiary system was begun by the church as a place of quiet isolation where a person could recognize their misbehavior and repent. The word is a derivative of the root word penitence. As problems began to grow, the church turned penitence to the state.

· The bible tells us, ‘… inasmuch as you did to the least of these, you did unto me …’

For Society

· Corrections is generally the second largest State/Federal expense

· It costs an average of $60,000 per year to maintain each person in prison

· The cost of imprisoning one individual is approximately 4 times the cost to send one of our own children to college.

· Each rehabilitated person represents over $200,000 overall savings in tax expenditures

For the Children

· The average inmate in the United States prison systems parents six children

· Children of jailed parents are more likely to go to prison themselves: 70% if only one parent is jailed, and 90% more likely if both parents are jailed

· Many children of prisoners have never met one, or both, of their parents. These children often live with grandparents, family or friends in poverty.

· One rehabilitated offender impacts at least 7 people

For the Person

· Most people are released without adequate identification, job, housing, money, clothing, or transportation to succeed.

· Their total possessions must fit in the 1 square foot box

· 85% of persons return to prison within their lifetimes—many for lack of life’s basic requirements

· Transition assisted persons are 40% less likely to return to prison

Text Box: •Derived from the root word penitence