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A nonprofit’s solution to courts budgets woe’s. Help the kids and help your budget too.
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A Nonprofit’s Solution To Courts Budgets Woe’s. Help The Kids And Help Your Budget Too.
By Ken Stepp
Dated: Mar 25, 2010
A cost saving lesson with a great ending
The mantra lately has been finding ways to keep county ,city ,and even states budgets in line. How
changing the way they punish minor pot offenses to drawing productive people back to their city or state
will help. Today the need is saving more money and doing it with a purpose in mind. Today the focus is on
saving your court much needed funds and helping families and first responders
both be done at the same time ? Yes and it is very simple.
Sentencing offenders to community service hours can be a way to save a substantial amount of the
budget. Sending people to jail is costly and very high in liability. It also causes in many cases the offender
to lose their job and thus adding to the problems the economy has today. This action can even displace
entire families because they lose their bread winner to unnecessary incarceration. There are smarter more
helpful solutions.
Community service sentencing really only has one problem. There are very few places to do community
service in the community. American Angel Works is a foundation on the front line of hurting people.
developed a unique way of combining an offenders community service hours and helping these children.
It’s simple really.
American Angel Works has people it supports in every state and most communities. A probation officer ,judge
or district attorney loves sentencing people to community service or having them do their service hours
withAngel Works because they know that it is their area that will benefit from it. Angel Works
has a network in every major city (and some small ones) that partner with them to reach hurting people.
funding from the hours completed through them. Mark Baker with North Georgia Judicial Services
explained that he can almost see the co op that is being funded from his home.
The average daily cost to incarcerate someone is $50 providing they do not need medical attention or file
a law suit for an event. If you used community service more in a small municipality and could keep 10
people per day out of jail they would save nearly $200,000 by simply offering an alternative. A larger
municipality that could keep 100 people out would have an extra $2,000,000 (2 Million) with no cost to
implement this program whatsoever.
A story that starts out bad and ends great is what this is. If these courts need to balance their budgets
,want to help their community ,and some children in need this is truly a fairy tail ending for everyone.
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If you would like more information or schedule an interview please call Ken Stepp at 877.577.1486 Or
email him at kstepp@americanangelworks.com - www.americanangelworks.com
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children and others.
Category Budget, Law, Community service
Tags economy, budget, nonprofit, court, community service
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Posted on March 25, 2010
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