Attention Californians: Your Crisis Clamors for Creativity!

Attention Californians: you confront a correctional crisis!

According to the US Supreme Court, in a May 23, 2011 ruling, Californians must receive 40,000 convicted criminals from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation within the next 24 months.

Attention Californians! The prisoners are coming!

You know the news; therefore, I will simply summarize it here.

The CDCR operates a prison system built to house 80,000 inmates which now houses 143,000 convicted criminals. This system teeters on the precipice of violating the 8th amendmentof the U.S.Constitution that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. Therefore, the US Supreme Court, in upholding a lower court decision, ruled that this prison system must release 40,000 inmates over the next 24 months. The numbers tell us that this decison will either cost Californians $1.72 billion by 2016 as 36,000 of these released inmates return to California's prison system within three years, or initiate a $2.28 billion, plus economic turnaround. The turnaround occurs when36,000 of these men and women become community contributors. The 36,000 contributors mean that only 10 percent, or 4,000, of the 40,000 released returned to prison within three years.The turnaround combines tax dollars you will not have to pay to finance the $48,500 required annually to incaracerate an individual, withan average of $30,000 each of these men and women could earn.

The numbers reflect two critical choices: Will these 40,000 men and women being released continue thinking, speaking and behaving as community criminals, or will they become community contributors?

If they already knew how to become profitable producers they would have done so long ago. You see, no one wants to spend years in prison. They go to prison because they attempt to justify harming others to gain for self. California, like all jurisdictions in our nation, has a highly trained system of crime response professionals who specialize in capturing, convicting and theoretically correcting criminals.

Clearly the system captures and convicts far more effectively and efficiently than it corrects, or Californians would not be confronting this challenging crisis.

Our company--Ministering/Mentoring Persons Affected by Crime, (MPAC, Inc.)--will teach, train and provide mental and emotional tools these 40,000 men and women need to change from community criminals to community contributors. We guarantee that we will reduce the recidivism rate of these 40,000 men and women to 10 percent or less. In other words, at least 36,000 of these released individuals will never return to crime and prison.

Attention Californians! Will you invest another $50 per year in each of these men and women for the next two years so they can learn how to become transformed from criminals to contributors? Yes, this increases your investment by $4 million more on the front end. However, consider the Return on Investment you receive when 36,000 of these individuals become contributors to the California economy. I calculated their average salaries and professional revenues at about $30,000 annually, for an aggregate total of $1.08 billion. That's about a 2700 percent return on your investment.

Consider our guarantee! We will refund the full training cost of any person actively involved in our program--that is moving continually along the Change Continuum--and who returns to crime and prison. .That guarantee covers the five years they're enrolled in our program, and the next five years as well!

Attention Californians! I need your help! When you complete this article, please do the following:

1. Email the link to this article and the original proposal on this website to your local media. Explain that you support this idea, if it has a possibility of working,and ask them to investigate.

2. Email the link to this article and the original proposal on this website to your state representatives with the same message. Urge the legislators to support this initiative.

3. Email the link to this article and the original proposal to 10 of your relatives, friends and colleagues, especially those who have relatives and friends in prison.

Finally, Californians, I challenge you to practice the seven powerful performance principles of S.U.C.C.E.S.S. regarding this initiative. The principles are as follows:

1. Get started

2. Develop a powerful WHY forall you do.

3. Become and remain teachable and coach-able

4. Master systems and process thinking

5. Work S.M.A.R.T.

6. Work hard

7. Never quit

The acronym S,U,C,C,E,S,S, stands for Striving Until Clear Comprehensive Empowerment secures stability. The acronym S.M.A.R.T. stands for work specifically, work measurably, work achievably, work relevantly, and work with a time focus.

Attention Califorians! The prisoners are coming! Let's help them become and profitable producers!.