Purpose of The Rehabilitated Project:

Our purpose is to:

Work with ex-offenders to implement our Credo to their, and society's, collective benefit; and

Build an acceptance throughout the United States and internationally that Restorative Justice must be available to all qualifying ex-offenders. 

These two goals are accomplished through participation in the legislative process in supporting bills such as the Second Chance Act of 2007 and by working to build Restorative Justice appreciation around the United States built upon the TRP Credo.

Definition of Restorative Justice:

Restorative Justice consists of three parts that are intertwined: first, by following the TRP Credo, the offender must acknowledge that only by embracing a power greater than themselves can restoration be achieved; Second, the offender must accept responsibility for the wrongful acts through pertinence and positive expression of remorse to any victim; and, Third, the offender must be given an opportunity by societal processes to reclaim his, or her, life through an evidentiary process  designed to determine whether rehabilitation has, in fact, occurred.

Credo of The Rehabilitated Project^*:

• We admit that our lives have been severely impacted by our conviction in ways we cannot control.
   
• We believe that God is a power greater than ourselves and that God can restore us.
   
• We have made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God.
   
• We have made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
   
• We have admitted to God, to ourselves, and to others the exact nature of our conviction.
   
• We have declared ourselves to be entirely ready to have God remove all defects of our character.
   
• We have, and will continue daily, to humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings.
   
• We have prepared a list of all persons who we may have harmed or who have claimed such.
   
• We have, and will continue daily, to direct amends to such people wherever possible.
   
• We have, and continue daily, to take personal inventory.
   
• When we are wrong we promptly and publicly admit it to all concerned.
   
• We seek through daily prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
   
• We work daily to carry this message to all we contact.
   
• We work daily on employing these principles in all our affairs.
   

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