Learn about the Restorative Justice Rehabilitation Reforms (RJRR), a movement focused on reducing the prison pipeline through community engagement, rehabilitation, and re-entry programs.
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Embattled prison activist, counselor, and blogger Reginald Clemons is confident that upon his release, there will be a lot of changes ahead regarding reform. He contacted The Argus to talk about efforts that are being put in place to help him and others rehabilitate back into society.
The Restorative Justice Rehabilitation Reforms (R.J.R.R.) efforts are being put together, as a pipeline out of prison. To counteract the pressures of poverty caused by drugs, unemployment, and lack of S.T.E.M. education opportunities, that have created a pipeline to prison.
In this Restorative Justice Rehabilitation Reform (RJRR), we are working with religious/activist groups, and community organizers, seeking the healing and guidance of victims’ rights organizations, engaging the circuit attorney’s offices and government officials throughout the State of Missouri. While increasing and expanding the membership base of the Missouri Prison Reform (MPR), to include everyone interested in reducing the crime rate through rehabilitation, while establishing a successful Re-Entry 2030 program, outside the prisons.
What has been discussed and decided upon so far, in this effort to bring about a more balanced reduction in both crime and the prison population? By figuring out how to reduce the recidivism rate, we will be able to understand what leads a person to a life of crime in the first place. Nothing in life can be done without resources and nothing can be maintained over a long period, without a regenerative cyclical way of continuing to generate resources.
By taking in membership dues, we will be able to annually sustain the needed resources a chapter or charter needs to conduct fundraisers. These membership dues will be issued accounting to a membership scale for services rendered or offered. Where for $4 members receive the newsletter, for $6 members receive access to resource information, for $8 members receive assistance for review of legal claims, $10 members can have up to 200 documents archived and 10¢ a subsequent document thereafter.
All paid members can vote for the board president of a charter and said president fills all the board seats needed, to operate according to MPR by-laws. Missouri Prison Reform will provide all the information needed for law-abiding citizens in the free world to get directly involved, by becoming a Volunteer In Correction (VIC). This Volunteer In Correction (VIC) pass, will allow you to visit the prison and get directly involved with criminal justice reform and rehabilitation, as a member of MPR.
Working with the circuit attorney’s offices throughout Missouri, Missouri Prison Reform (MPR) will be able to give people community service hours. These community service hours will be for helping to rehab houses, as a part of the Whole Way Home program. The Whole Way Home program will provide parolees a means of obtaining housing, with the option to buy the home outright.
The Whole Way Home program will also allow parolees to work off homeowner debt, by helping to rehab additional Whole Way Home housing, for other parolees. Providing parolees a dignified means to gain and earn a living, will reduce the likelihood of parolees committing more crimes.
While helping to improve and rebuild the communities parolees were once a part of. Whole Way Home will provide parolees with guidance to navigate through government assistance for those freshly released from prison. Through MPR, activist groups, and community-based organizations will know what prisoners are doing for release in the immediate future.
The Missouri Prison Reform website will be available to the public for its public-based membership and transparent mass consumption of information. The Missouri Prison Reform will work towards holding court-recognized rehabilitation classes facilitated by certified professionals in criminology, anger management, substance abuse, etc. Striving to meet and accommodate all the Missouri Department Of Probation and Parole requirements for their established standards on rehabilitation.
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