Working together with second chance employers, the Alliance Program creates opportunities for incarcerated individuals to work with community partners. Learning important job skills, earning money for life post-release, and increasing the chances of post-release success are all effects of these partnerships.
By having the chance to work while still incarcerated, these men and women can be fully trained for full time positions when they leave our custody.
The Alliance programs are proven to increase the participant’s success rate by 12%. That means 12% fewer people are going back into custody; 12% more people are productive members of our communities, and 12% more people are in the workforce providing for themselves and their families.
ICI creates business Alliances by utilizing the State Agriculture Program and the Federal, Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program (PIE).
Together with Idaho Dept. of Corrections (IDOC) and our dedicated private sector partners, ICI works to prepare our Resident Trainees with on -the-job training and work experience in agriculture programs. Trainees will develop transferable job skills, a good work ethic and confidence in their accomplishments. All these things help to give people a sense of pride: for some of these folks – for the first time in their lives.
Each Trainee in these programs contributes 5% of their gross wages to the Idaho Victims Compensation Fund as well as paying IDOC a bit for Room & Board, to help offset the cost of incarceration to the public.
The recidivism rate among those who have worked in an ICI program while incarcerated is on average 17% lower than those who have not.
ICI has proven programs that work! Gaining the skills and self esteem to go out and get a job are priceless and having a job is the number one factor in lowering the recidivism rate.
Upon release, Residents who have participated in an ICI AG training program are better able to provide for themselves and their families with these essentials:
- Housing
- Transportation
- Food
- Clothing
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The Prison Industry Enhancement Certification (PIE) program was created by congress in 1979 to reduce idleness in prisons & offer better opportunities to learn work skills and earn money so residents could pay restitution and other financial obligations they have.
Today, along with the Idaho Ag program, these opportunities are a mainstay of helping the IDOC residents get to a better place in life and make a new start once they satisfy their sentence.
Each Trainee in these programs contributes 5% of their gross wages to the Idaho Victims Compensation Fund as well as paying IDOC a bit for Room & Board, to help offset the cost of incarceration to the public.
The real win in this program is that most of these residents, who will be released into our communities, are released as stronger and better members of society; the hard and soft skills they have learned will help them in the new life they will be creating, and a new sense of pride in themselves and the money they have been able to earn and save, sets them up for success.
More info can be found at: https://www.nationalcia.org/about-piecp
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