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We’re moving along with this process. Interviews, interviews, and more
interviews. It’s not showing any signs of slowing down, but it will have to
stop soon, and will do so rather abruptly. At some point, we’re going to
have to make some hard decisions, and unfortunately that means a lot of
great people won’t get the chance to be part of this pilot program. We can’t
hire them all, it wouldn’t be practical, and that’s true of any
organization. But here’s the good news: it is a pilot program, and if
it goes well, you may be able to do something similar on a different team
somewhere else. The analytics team in my company has looked into this for
us, and have estimated that this program need only last for eight months
before they would have enough data to reach some real conclusions about its
efficacy. All eyes are on us right now to see if we succeed, but there are
rumors of others who are considering building their own programs before our
data comes in. We’re not sure if that’s the right thing to do, but we can’t
stop them, and it may not be right to want to if we could. I think it’s fine
to try to take your own shot, as long as you don’t spend too many resources
on it, and come at it from a place of trying to make things better. Now,
what do I mean by better? Well, here’s what it’s not. We’re not here
to save the taxpayers money. That will hopefully be a consequence of our
changes to jail and prison population procedures, but it’s not what we’re
going for. We could accomplish that in any number of easier ways, by only
feeding them slop, or doubling up on cell assignments, or not letting them
have any yard time. You don’t need to pay many guards if you don’t allow
your inmates to leave their cells, do you? Obviously, that would be
inhumane, and I hope that no one else is suggesting it.
Our goal is to improve people’s lives, reduce recidivism, and create a
healthier and more productive community overall. I hope that anyone who gets
their ideas from us only accepts the good ideas, and rejects the ultimate
failures. We’re going to be going through growing pains. At some point, our
plans, theories, and models are going to become meaningless if we don’t
actually institute the policy changes. It may not turn out well, and as
difficult as it is for me to admit that, it would be unethical for me to
imply that I know exactly what I’m doing. The entire point in hiring these
experts for a team that has never existed before is to try something new,
and by its very nature, we don’t know what’s going to happen. So I hope that
other programs take that into account. Sorry to get all preachy, and maybe
sound a little angry. I just want to make it clear that we’ve only just
begun here. It’s going to take some time. The judicial system in this
country isn’t going to change overnight, and nothing we do here is going to
give definitive answers for how to handle our nation’s incarcerated with no
exceptions. What we would like to do is group guests in our facilities
according to predictive modeling of sustainable harmony, nonviolence, and
social progress. But the fact of the matter is that everyone there will have
been tried and convicted of a crime. Guilty or innocent, they’re not there
by choice, so none of them is going to be happy-go lucky, and excited to be
locked up for the next X amount of time, or intermittently, as it were.
We’ll try to make it as safe and productive as possible, but there’s only so
much we can do. It’s not magic, so don’t expect to bring the crime rate down
to zero, or anything. Okay, that was a bit depressing. Hopefully tomorrow’s
post will be more optimistic, or a little easier to swallow.
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