The Kronos Project is an innovative ten-month prison program. Kronos inmates experience an internal personality change in their values and beliefs, altering their behavior and restoring their dignity.
Kronos graduates then return to the general population and begin mentoring others to create a safer prison culture. Upon their prison release, Kronos graduates benefit communities through prosocial reintegration and reduced recidivism.
The Kronos Project Succeeds because of eight factors.
(1) The Kronos Project addresses the four factors prisons cannot overcome in their rehabilitation efforts. The Kronos Project (1) identifies those inmates who can and cannot be changed internally, (2) incorporates six characteristics regarded necessary to reduce recidivism in its holistic curriculum, (3) provides the outside community a meaningful role in the criminal justice system, and (4) measures success or failure in real-time.
(2) The Kronos Project’s outcome is the transformation of their inmates. Finding one’s true self goes much deeper than inmates not recidivating. Trauma not transformed is trauma transferred. Kronos inmates discover their inherent worth, and how it now enables them to grow and flourish. They understand what trauma brought them to prison, and how future relationships are formed around their newly found self-worth.
(3) The Kronos Project alters a prison’s culture. The Kronos Project reduces prison conflict. It intervenes into the life of their inmates at the heart of the inmate’s incarceration, after their prison orientation, but before any re-entry programming can commence. The Kronos Project accepts inmates in the program who are prison influencers…lifers, long-termers, gang leaders, hard-timers, non-believers, etc. Kronos graduates return to the prison’s general population to mentor others. Shepherds don’t make sheep, sheep make sheep. The more Kronos graduates in the prison’s general population the greater the cultural shift and safer the prison.
(4) The Kronos Project impacts communities as Kronos graduates who have paid their debt to society recidivate less. Kronos returning citizens still face many challenges in their return to society. However, their post-incarceration behavior will be centered on benefitting others by helping, sharing, and co-operating. This time their life will be different as Kronos graduates become an economic benefit rather than a burden to the community.
(5) The Kronos Project has a core mandatory curriculum of fourteen components. During Kronos’ program, Kronos inmates are required to attend these fourteen components with elective options determined by the parent company. The length of this core curriculum varies and is taught around the host prison’s policies, procedures, and operations. This curriculum is holistically interfaced with the ‘Big Six’ characteristics that help keep prisoners from recidivating. Nowhere in the criminal justice system does this happen, in or out of prison.
(6) The Kronos Project’s curriculum will be wholly owned and conducted by an outside parent company under the host prison’s security requirements, policies, and procedures. The parent company is comprised of paid staff, volunteers, and outside facilitators who have a calling for prison work. Essential responsibilities of the ten-month program are understood and agreed to up front by the parent company and the host prison. The Kronos Project is a meaningful effort to integrate the outside community with the host prison over a prolonged period of time.
(7) The Kronos Project, through an outside third party, will statistically prove in real-time the program’s effectiveness. Inmates will be screened during the recruitment process by an outside company missioned to identify inmates who are in the 60% of those ready for a life changing experience. Inmates will also be assessed before the program and again after the program’s completion. This double assessment is used to determine if there has been any internal change in criminal thinking, motivation, resilience, self-esteem, motivation, interpersonal skills, stress/anxiety levels, communication capabilities, empathy, and ability to genuinely bond with others. A data analysis will be provided at the conclusion of the program to the parent company. This is a real-time measurement that allows The Kronos Project to be a continuous improvement model for the parent company and host prison.
(8) The annual operating budget for each Kronos Project is directly proportional to the infrastructure of each prison. Every parent company is unique. Every host prison is unique. An experienced Kronos Project Architectural Team will help the parent company and host prison implement The Kronos Project pilot. The Architectural Team will do this in stages, allowing the parent company and host prison to make decisions gradually to go forward with minimal financial investment.
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