Hi HN, We are Phaedra and Diana of Promise ( http://joinpromise.com/ ). We provide a cost-effective, more humane alternative to incarceration. We work for government agencies to monitor and support individuals who would otherwise be in jail or who are under some form of community supervision. There are almost 2.3 million people behind bars in the US and another 4.5+ million people on probation or parole. Almost 450,000 people are in jails pretrial, meaning they have not been convicted of the crime for which they were arrested. The majority of these individuals remain in custody because they cannot afford to pay for their release. This is costly for governments and devastating for the individuals who remain in jail who can lose their job, housing, children and more while incarcerated. Believe it or not, many of these people never even end up being charged with or convicted of a crime. Phaedra had a background in politics (she ran the South Bay Labor Council) and Diana had a backgroun...
