Corrections Concepts, Inc.

The purpose of Habilitation House is “the protection of society through the humane and secure incarceration of offenders and the preparation of them for their reintegration with society...by instilling responsibility and mature decision making in residents through increments of reasonable freedom expectations and appropriate consequences, the resident will be able to develop his potentials with dignity.” The end result of the facility’s program is to enable the resident to”return to successful, meaningful, offense-free community living.”

Habilitation House is an innovative release preparation program for adult male residents in a minimum/medium custody correctional facility with on-site vocational industries.  To that end, CCI has developed a proven, comprehensive, systematic program for the reintroduction of these men into society.

The Picture

In 1947, at the conclusion of World War II, this country faced a huge health care crisis.  There was almost no provision for indigent health care.  The Public Health Service was the largest bureaucracy in the federal government, by manpower and budget.  The national leadership observed the Christian community building hospitals because they saw this as a Biblical mandate.  The struggle for the Christians was raising the capitol for brick and mortar.  There were many who had the expertise to manage these hospitals but construction funds were scarce.  So, Congress passed the Hill-Burton Act, (Act) which created Hospital Districts with taxing authority to offer these motivated Christians and Public Hospitals those funds without conditions except to prove their need.  With this financing vehicle, the Christian community in just four (4) years, from 1947-1951, built and opened almost 180,000 hospital beds.  This Act is the foundation for Baylor, Harris Methodist, Presbyterian, Sisters of Mercy, and the largest non-profit health care system in the world, the Seventh Day Adventists.  If you removed the Baptists, Catholics, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Adventists from the health care industry, the indigents would have scarce providers.  The for-profits emerged about 45 years ago and have bled off more than 40% of the paying patients from the non-profits without being required to treat the poor.

If "visiting" the prisoner is as Biblical as "visiting" the patient, then why aren't there just as many Christian managed prisons, as there are Christian managed hospitals?  Because many knew what a "successful" hospital looked like but no one has ever seen a "successful" prison.  "Success" should mean returning criminals to society as contributing law-abiding citizens.