TRP has two objectives:  first, and foremost, we are dedicated to assisting ex-offenders reintegrate as quickly as possible; second, we seek societal change in order to promote the first objective.

The most effective method of achieving the first goal - reintegration - is through effectively incorporating our Credo into the day-to-day life of each ex-offender.  We achieve this through our TRP Classes.

The most effective method of achieving the second goal is through legislative implementation of our Certificate of Rehabilitation (COR).

This page broadly discusses what the objective of each class is, how the objective is reached and the long-term desired result that can be obtained.

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 Reintegration can consist of a variety of factors but, when summarized, there are but two major concerns:  family and employment.

For purposes of brevity, employment issues will be used to illustrate our process but in almost all instances what is discussed is equally applicable to family.  Good employment is difficult, if not impossible, to find when a criminal conviction is present. 

When employment is found, it is usually through government programs, concerned employers such as religious organization and The Mens' Wearhouse, or personal connections.  The opportunities simply do not exist on anywhere near an equal footing for ex-offenders despite the passage of years unless a statutory scheme can be relied upon to clean up the conviction. 

When there are no government programs, beneficent employers, personal connections or Certificates of Rehabilitation (COR) - there generally is no employment.  This fact, and this fact alone, explains why the United States has such an incredibly high recidivism rate.

So, lets start with an assumption:  all employers want to fill their jobs with qualified workers and are willing to take a chance on a "new hire" so long as there appears to exist some rational basis for taking that chance.

TRP's Classes provide that rational basis.  This is how we do it:

•  As the Innocence Project is ever-more showing, there are substantial numbers of completely innocent individuals locked up with many even on death row.  Add to this that the underlying facts supporting a conviction are only those facts allowed under our rules of evidence to come before a jury and we have a very high potential for an ex-offender truly believing he, or she, was a victim even more than the actual victim of the charged crime.  How do we deal with this?  Lets say a person has a conviction but that person can show that a judge did not let a crucial fact into the trial for one non-sensical "legal" reason, or another.  Based on that this person could rationally believe in his actual innocence.  The belief of innocence could be completely improper - for example, belief that the crime was caused by poverty - but the belief of innocence nevertheless exists.  What the first Class taught by TRP achieves is to bring to the ex-offender a realization that despite personal beliefs that the fact of the conviction must be dealt with in the most affirmative way possible.  Until there is an actual, real and mentally-accepted decision made by the ex-offender that the conviction must be affirmatively embraced there can be no other progress.

  • An example of the affirmative embrace of a conviction could be a person who follows an instruction from a figure in authority to complete a task.  The task being completed to the satisfaction of the authority figure, the person then repeatedly performs this task.  At a subsequent time this task is characterized as criminal in nature under any one of a hundred criminal statues on the books in the United States Code that requires no criminal intent, merely the performance of the act made illegal by the statute.  These sorts of laws are called "No Fault Felonies".  No mal-intent is required, no loss of any kind and no victim is required, simply a doing of the act defined as a "crime" in the statute... that's all!  How does the person in such circumstances grapple with the fact that his life is completely destroyed by a conviction when there was no criminal intent, no financial loss and no victim?  Coming to grips with this is daunting, to say the least.  But it must be done and we help the ex-offender do just that.

• We assist the ex-offender to build a portfolio of progress that can be exhibited to a potential employer.  This portfolio shows that a defined set of criteria have been met, that the ex-offender has exhibited remorse and sorrow for the results of the conduct for which the conviction was imposed and that he has built community support behind him.

• One of the most important aspects of dealing with the conviction is learning how to describe the conviction.  Exercises in writing and explaining are thus important.

• Another highly important issue is openness about drug, alcohol or behavioural problems as the antecedent to the conviction. 

Thus, the Classes of TRP provide the means by which an ex-offender can start his reintegration.  Upon completing the Classes, TRP issues its own "Certificate of Rehabilitation" which certificate explains the hours, lessons and results of the effort put forth by the ex-offender.

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