Save Money. Choose Rehabilitation Not Re-Incarceration.

We find ourselves with the rare opportunity to help others while also helping ourselves. According to www.drugpolicy.org the amount spent annually in the U.S. on the war on drugs is more than $51 billion and among nearly 275,000 prisoners released in 1994, 67.5% were rearrested within 3 years, and 51.8% were back in prison. (Langan, Patrick A.; Levin, David J., 2002). What if we could cut that down to 33%? How many lives would be changed? How much tax money would be saved? Drug offenders constitute 48% of all federal inmates, or some 94,600 inmates. Among state prisoners, drug offenders accounted for 17%, or slightly fewer than one out of five. That means some 235,000 were doing state prison time on drug charges at the end of 2011, bringing the combined state and federal total to 330,000. That's a slight decline over a decade ago, but still represents incalculable human costs, as well as easily calculable financial one.” (Washington, 2012). We believe that by requiring state and federal prisons to have a rehabilitation program we can change the lives of numerous inmates by not only rehabilitating them but also keeping them out of the prison system and ultimately saving you, the taxpayer, money.