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Tennessee Rehabilitation and Placement Services (T.R.A.P.S.) is
a non-profit organization designed to rehabilitate and educate ex-offenders
in being useful citizens in society. A program designed to reduce
recidivism by means of training, education, job placement, and medical
assistance. T.R.A.P.S. will provide community supervision, medical
assistance, job skills training and educational advancement with
a wide variety of programs and mentorship services. T.R.A.P.S. will
accomplish this though various types of regulations such as: 1)
GED programs, 2) computer skills training lab, 3) job preparatory
classes 4) weekly progress reports from supervisors and 5) physical
examinations upon admission. Studies have shown that ex-offenders
with jobs commit fewer crimes than ex-offenders without jobs and
that those with higher earning commit fewer crimes than those with
lower earning. T.R.A.P.S. started in May of 2002 due to overwhelming
of recidivism. The Shelby County Justice Center houses approximately
4,627 people charged with various offenses and awaiting arraignment,
trial, or who are sentenced to city, county, state or federal institutions.
T.R.A.P.S was started to address the special needs of offenders,
and to help inmates become reinstated back into the community.
Information will be sent to jails and prisons, and T.R.A.P.S will
also personally contact the local authorities of the jails and prisions
so they can inform inmates that will be release about the organization
and the programs that we offer. T.R.A.P.S. will be visiting inmates
in jail or prison, shortly before prisoners are due to be released.
We will assist them in contacting employers and train them in skills
to find a job effectively. T.R.A.P.S. will work with the offenders
by referring them to service provided by other social services agencies
that T.R.A.P.S have networked with for there basic necessities.
T.R.A.P.S. will do a follow-up on each and every ex-offender to
check on the progress of the newly hired. For example, if we have
clients to miss days off work an employment specialist will telephone
the employees residence to find out what is going on and to can
get them back on track.
T.R.A.P.S. is committed to ensuring public safety by transitioning
offenders back into the community, adding to productive general
population. Rehabilitation will be accomplished by giving each offender
employment skills, employer contacts, as well as, job placement
and skills needed to maintain productive lifestyles. Facilitating
them with the educational skills needed to reintegrate the offender
back into society. This program is active in striving to provide
the community with safety by restoring lives and the future of our
community.
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