Back on Track

My project is called Back on Track.  The purpose of this project is to help recently released criminals or former criminals who are trying to get their life back together.  This is where I come in.  With my company, Back on Track, it will give these people the opportunity find jobs where the employer does not car if the person they are hiring has a criminal record.  My company along with the employer want to help them get back on the right path.  It is difficult for people with criminal records, especially felonies, to find a job.  In addition, we help people practice for interviews and even help them construct resumes.  We do not just stop there, we keep in touch with our clients so we can track their progress.  We want to see them succeed.

Typically, when an employer sees that someone has a criminal record, they do not even bother thinking about hiring them.  They do not want someone like that working for them.  They have preconceived ideas about how former criminals are and how they might act.  In addition, since there is a high recidivism rate, this will hopefully help bring that down because people will be able to find jobs and hopefully keep them.  Then, if the recidivism rate goes down, the incarceration number will go down.  This will help the problems of mass incarceration and overpopulation in prisons.

The target audience for this project is adults and politicians.  If adults see this, maybe they know someone who could use our help.  If politicians see this, maybe I could receive federal funding to run this project since we are a non-profit organization.

As far as social media goes, I created a website for the project called 1backontrack.weebly.com.  Here, people can read about the company and then sign up for an account to get started.  I also created a Facebook and a Twitter.  These would be updated quite often in order to promote any information and events that the company will have.  An increasing number of people are creating Facebooks and Twitters.  I do not think my target audience would typically have Instagram or Tumblr so those would not work.


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Back on Track — 2 Comments

  1. This is a great idea! I know that a lot of released criminals end up back in prison/jail because they aren’t going down the right path. I think this is because we don’t help them once they get out. You touch on many aspects of HOW you can help them. This seems like it could work.

  2. Dude I give you so many props! My government teacher from high school was very interested in our prison system so she would always talk about it. I really love your topic because it is a serious problem. From what I’ve learned from her and a few friends, the private sector has a lot to do with the prisons. Did you know that they do a correlation test between how students perform in certain tests in elementary school to building prisons? It is a very sad system also because there’s a scarcity of programs for prisoners to educate themselves and change their attitude to be able to adjust to society once they come out. Personally, a person that I know was in prison fora few years and joined a gang inside so that he would be protected. He ended up having tattoos all over his body when he came out (mostly of the gang) so it took him a long time to get a job.

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