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Joseph House exists because 95% of the 100,000 men and women currently incarcerated in Florida will be released. Without support services, two-thirds will return to prison within three years.
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Further complicating matters is the fact that the U.S. doesn’t have one “criminal justice system;” instead, we have thousands of federal, state, local, and tribal systems. Together, these systems hold almost 2 million people in 1,566 state prisons, 98 federal prisons, 3,116 local jails, 1,323 juvenile correctional facilities, 181 immigration detention facilities, and 80 Indian country jails, as well as in military prisons, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S. territories.
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157,000 people from Florida are behind bars. Additionally, the number of people impacted by county and city jails in Florida is much larger than the statistic would suggest, because people cycle through local jails relatively quickly. Each year, at least 350,000 different people are booked into local jails in Florida.
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More than 650,000 ex-offenders are released from prison every year, and studies show that approximately two-thirds will likely be rearrested within three years of release.
We are breaking the cycle of hopelessness.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. The state of Florida imprisons its population at a rate higher than any independent democracy on earth. The numbers are staggering. We know that without support, these men are at a high risk of returning to prison.
Joseph House provides safe, trauma-informed housing for men released from prison. Our home, one resident at a time, is breaking the cycle of mass incarceration.
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Your support goes towards creating a home.
Your tax-deductible donations directly help those in need of a place of belonging, providing support services that restore dignity to the formerly incarcerated, and developing educational and volunteer opportunities for the wider community to engage in peace and justice.
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