A Texas Program that Could Solve America’s Criminal Justice Crisis | Al Massey

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Dan Crenshaw

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4.6 • 16K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Nationwide, half of the prisoners released are incarcerated again within three years. But participants in the Texas-based Prison Entrepreneurship Program are seeing a return-to-prison rate of less than 7%. Al Massey was a graduate of that program and went on to serve as its Executive Relations Manager, helping prisoners prepare for their release by developing values-based business skills and a support structure to pursue their entrepreneurial visions. He joins us to talk about the program, the hurdles prisoners face re-integrating into society, what prison life is really like, differences between private and public prisons, and criminal justice reform.

Learn more about the Prison Entrepreneurship Program at pep.org.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	That all men are created.
0:04.0	There's a number of Congress I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:09.2	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.6	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:18.0	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:24.0	Oh, welcome to the show and welcome back everyone in the audience.
0:28.0	I've hosted a number of law enforcement experts, most prominent of which.
0:32.0	We had Attorney General Bill Barr on recently.
0:36.0	These discussions focus on important issues like recent surge in crime, how to prevent it.
0:42.0	But there's also immense value from learning from those who've actually been behind bars
0:46.0	and turned their lives around and dealing with the recidivism issue that is a key driver of crime.
0:52.0	Nationwide, we have 1.5 million people incarcerated in the United States.
0:56.0	600,000 people released every year.
0:58.0	Typically, inmates are released of $50 in cash.
1:02.0	And the same back into the same community.
1:04.0	They entered from pretty ill-equipped to deal with the many challenges they face.
1:08.0	And so, well, no way a justification for repeated criminality.
1:12.0	It's still predictable.
1:14.0	You're putting this situation.
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