ABOUT B.R.A.C.E.E.
Reaching for Long-term Recidivism Reduction for Convicted Felons
Mission Statement
The effort required to boost responsibility, academics, careers, and empowerment are obviously multi fold, challenging and costly. This is especially true for B.R.A.C.E.E’s chosen demographic community responsibility; long term academic achievement goals; which in turn rewards the pursuit of careers instead of mere short-term results in the participants awakened consciousness of responsibility.
OVERVIEW
- B.R.A.C.E.E. blueprint for civic actions derives from and on going, robust collaboration between concerned citizens and convicted prisoners. What uniquely differentiates B.R.A.C.E.E. is the element of inmate involvement.
- B.R.A.C.E.E. exists because prisoners seized the initiative to enact change in both the prison re-entry model and the chronic crisis that is the high school dropout to prison pipeline. B.R.A.C.E.E. provides a joint response to the seemingly intractable problems of recidivism and high school dropout rates.
- B.R.A.C.E.E. believes that the rehabilitation and post-release support offered former inmates are woefully lacking. Twinning this concern with the scant efforts toward preventative support for the high-risk students with a proclivity towards criminal behavior, a door that is opened for a reorientation of how to approach both problems.
The compass needle points decidedly in the direction of an activist inmate -included solution. B.R.A.C.E.E. proffers and inmate financed remedy for the aforementioned social maladies. Employing Missouri Department of Correction (D.O.C.) offenders organizational fundraising revenues, B.R.A.C.E.E. and other inmate groups will pool and channel monies into well-tailored programs designed to ameliorate both recidivism and the criminalized behaviors of high risk children.