On one hand I hope that people, especially nonviolent people who are no threat to society at large, are able to serve their time while being able to reintegrate with society so that they have a stable job and network once their sentence is up.
On the other hand, I worry this sounds a lot like private prisons. What happens if the crime rate goes way, way down, or that the only people left in prison are the dangerous who wouldn’t qualify for Promise? What does that do to your profits? Would you be willing to accept an ultimately very low revenue in exchange for a “job well done”?
Anything that combines “for-profit” and “criminal justice system” makes me uncomfortable, even if people’s hearts are in the right places and the business does do good in the world. I hope this works out, but I am uneasy about yet another business that sees criminals as a market.