Corrections Concepts, Inc.

Overview of Work/Vocational Training Programs

The work programs at the Habilitation House will be divided into two areas. One is the facility maintenance program. This will employ about 100 residents, which is the number of residents enrolled in orientation, testing, and/or pre-employment training and preparation. The other is Vocational Training Industries, (as authorized by the Private Industries Enhancement, (PIE) program) which will involve a minimum of 400 residents who will earn while they learn a marketable skill.

FACILITY MAINTENANCE

Newly arrived residents could spend about one to six weeks in orientation, testing, and pre-employment training. Many will have abilities and motor skills to perform industries tasks but will lack certain academic skills, ( spelling, math, etc.) and manual skills (typing, etc. ). During this time they would work about one-half day in maintenance and food service areas. Additional their counseling program will begin upon arrival. These residents will be paid from $.50 to $1.00, (basic needs/wants) per hour from the commissary’s revenues. Involuntary, unassigned residents will receive at least 8 cents per hour. This compensation will never be charged to the per diem IGA and will not be paid by the DOC, the USBOP, the County or any tax money.

VOCATIONAL TRAINING INDUSTRIES

Residents will earn- while- they-learn from Vocational Training Industries, (VTI). Several private industries will be involved in this program. In order to qualify for this involvement, these industries must meet three criteria: 1. They must train the resident in a marketable skill, 2. That skill must be marketable in the community at the moment of that resident’s release from custody, 3. They must pay the resident the local prevailing wage or the Federal Minimum Wage for that skill. Meeting these stringent requirements will provide the resident will a skill needed in the marketplace, income, (while incarcerated) to support his family, reimburse the court, make restitution to his victim, establish a savings account for his release, and provide for his spending account during his time at Habilitation House. These direct benefits are practical, material, and cost-effective and the indirect benefits are numerous and valuable. This VTI involvement will teach the resident responsibility, positive-choice making, self-discipline, self-esteem, sense of accomplishment, and an assuagement of guilt. The probability of reuniting the family unit has been greatly enhanced by the return of the resident as a breadwinner. The bold-faced bottom line is that the resident returns to society with funds to get started, guarantee of a good job, and promise of a law-abiding future. He has not only agreed that this is way of life is much better but he has become convinced that it is now available to him.

The states of Texas, Oklahoma, California, Kansas and thirty-four other states are federally certified PIE coordinators as authorized by Title 18 USC 1761 Sec. 819. Various companies will have committed to hiring at least for-hundred, (400) of the residents that will pay at least the federal minimum wage at entry level. These wages will be spent in the following manner: (1) mandated 20% in a personal spending account (2) 5% -20% restitution, (3) 30% to management company for room, board, and supervision, (4) court-ordered child support, (5) family support and, (6) savings account to assist them upon their return to the real world.

The industries that have expressed strong interest in providing the on-site jobs and job training are in such fields as airline and motel/hotel computer reservations, data processing, telephone switching assembly, telephone instrument repair and renovation, travel agency, printing, organic food production, processing, and packaging.

Habilitation House will provide a full-time VTI liaison officer, plus complete academic back up for every skill position. These contracted industries will be housed in the VTI building comprising 52,000 feet.

This unique vocational training program will be implemented and administered by the Born Again Corporation, (BAC). The resident will be employed and will perform work and be trained by the BAC contracted industries. BAC will provide and be responsible for all accounting and record keeping activities. BAC will also be responsible for disbursement of the state calculated funds collected on behalf of each resident worker making deposits to the proper state agency and/or resident account. Accounting and accounting oversight will be provided by the Budget and Property Department, city/county monitor, and DOC or OJA monitor. BAC will also employ on-site a full-time VTI coordinator to interact with the CCI counterpart.