So the soft skills are learning to show up to work on time, sober, not cussing out your boss. And if somebody did both of those, then they, it was really good for recidivism. And we learned that we had to measure success in proximity.
So if somebody was in and out of jail for 20 years, and then they spent two years not coming to jail and then relapsed and came back, then we started counting that as a success. Because if they went two years without committing crime and they supported their family for two years, you know, that's a success because sometimes it takes multiple times for them to be successful. But I think like we started a farm school, teaching them basic farming, even though that might not have led to a job and a skill.
I mean, I have my own garden now, right? Because I said, well, if they're doing it, why not me, right? You teach people how to do life skills that they weren't exposed to or ever expected to do. And those are good skills to teach those folks as they try to recover. So it was a good program.
I, you know, a lot of my peers call it hug a thug, but I, it still was good, good programming, the right thing to do. We also had high school and that kind of stuff in there too. So very effective stuff works.
Our one problem is bridging to the outside and continuing the education and the treatment. That was where we broke down at. And so most of his numbers were okay, but they, they could have been much better.
