Jared Kushner

And if they have that, then hopefully that allows them to keep their head in the right place.

Sure.

So we passed a law called the First Step Act, which was the largest prison and criminal justice reform bill that's been done maybe in 30, 40, 50 years in the U.S.

And so what it basically did was two things.

Number one is

It took the prison system and it took a certain class of offenders and allowed them to become eligible for earlier release if they go through the certain trainings that will allow them to have a lower probability of going back.

So stepping back, you look at the prison system, you say, what's the purpose?

Is it to punish?

Is it to warehouse?

Is it to rehabilitate?

And I do think that we're a country that believes in second chances.

I saw firsthand when my father was a client of the system, how inefficient it was and how much better it could be.

And when my father got out, we didn't run from that experience.

He started hiring people from Rikers Island and different prisons into the company, into a second chance program, which we're very, very proud of doing.

And what we saw through our micro experience was that

If you give people mentorship, if you give them job training, a lot of people leave, they have addiction issues, and they can't find housing.

And so people leave prison with a criminal record, and they're less likely to go back and reintegrate in society without help.

from different institutions that can help them do that.

So we modeled the reforms off of what they did in Texas and Georgia and other states where they basically put a lot of job training, alcohol, and addiction treatment programs in the prisons as a way to incentivize the prisoners to work on themselves while they're there in order to allow them to reenter society.

It's turned out to be very successful so far.