We believe everyone is capable of being better than their worst moments.

TRANSFORMATIVE PROGRAMMING WORKS

A unified voice for community organizations offering programs in CA state prisons.

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The Failing System

  • 95% of California's incarcerated citizens will reenter society

  • 44% will be reincarcerated within 3 years of release

  • Only 1 of 31 CA prisons is fully served today

A Model That Works

  • Community-based organizations
    CBOs) reduce reincarceration to 21%

  • Led by people from the communities most affected by incarceration

  • Lifelines to the community upon reentry.

What is a CBO?

Small, local nonprofits with a collective impact.

2X

more effective at keeping people from returning to prison

When you've been told you are worthless, and someone from your community shows you that you actually are worth something, that is a transforming experience.

Triple Impact Model

FINANCIAL LEVERAGE

26:1

Every $1 invested in TPW unlocks $26 in annual state funding to CBOs

REACH & SCALE

19,043

Every $1 invested in TPW unlocks $26 in annual state funding to CBOs

EFFECTIVENESS

44%→21%

$1 invested in rehabilitation saves 5 in incarceration costs

500 years of incarceration avoided.

TPW’s Impact

  • Community-based organizations
    CBOs) reduce reincarceration to 21%

  • Led by people from the communities most affected by incarceration

  • Only 1 of 31 CA prisons is fully served today

THE 1% CAMPAIGN

  • Raise CA's annual rehab budget from 0.2% to 1%

  • $140M/yr to CBOs

  • Fully serve all 31 with our rehabilitation model

  • 95,215 is about how many can be reached with $140M (almost the entire incarcerated population)

While we are driven by a sense of humanity, but we are grounded in data.

All incarcerated people should have access to quality programs.

We advocate at the state level for increasing access to transformative and rehabilitative CBO programming for all people living in California prisons, and to accelerate the impact of sentencing reforms towards our North Star goal of decarceration.

  • "They made me see that I am lovable and worthy of real love."

  • "These groups give me the ambition I need to want better, and do better."

  • "I began to experience hope, and rediscover something to live for."

  • "It strengthens me, it heals me, it helps me to continue to open up and talk about the things I am dealing with today."

  • "To be better, you have to humble yourself to a state that you allow yourself to feel. And these groups allow me to do that."

  • "These groups honestly change you. They allow you to get out of your comfort zone, they allow you to push yourself because other people see you in a different light."

  • "They all have broadened my thinking and help me see that my choices affect not only me, but everyone around me, and the community as a whole."

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