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The entire "Here's how promise works" paragraph, and the one following it in your introduction sounds like, essentially, you've created a private parole system. State and county governments already have parole systems.

Is your proposition to these governments that they should pay you to supervise paroled persons instead of their own pre-existing systems? Is your proposition that it will be more effective (in terms of lower recidivism) and cost per parolee?

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Some counties have pre-trial departments and some don't. We believe we can perform these services or enhance services that already exist. In either case, making the current system more efficient and effective.

so your target market is partially pre-trial diversion programs, and not only persons who have already been sentenced?

Yes. Our initial target population are those individuals who are currently in jail pre-trial-meaning they have not been convicted of the crime for which they were arrested. Most of these people remain in jail because they cannot afford to bail out. We believe this is a critical population because they often have pressure to plead guilty to a crime they did not commit just to get out of jail. They are often then on probation, which can lead to a cycle of incarceration for probations violations-often that are very minor infractions.

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