Project Scope – To provide safe and stable housing for adults to transition into their community with adult literacy, social skills, financial structure.

Currently it costs an average of $52.61 per day ($19,202.65 per year) to keep an adult inmate incarcerated in the State of Indiana .

What are the financial costs of incarceration?

It costs local governments nationwide: $13.6 billion.” Following the Money of Mass Incarceration Prison Policy Initiative, January, 2017“ We find that the system of mass incarceration costs the government and families of justice-involved people at least $182 billion every year.”

Is Indiana’s incarceration rate higher than the national average?

Indiana has an incarceration rate of 765 per 100,000 people (including prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities), meaning that it locks up a higher percentage of its people than any democratic country on earth.

What data has S.C.O.PE. accumulated since opening in fall 2020?

(428) Total applicants for the program
(67) Past residents in the program
(6) Current residents
(21) Graduates
(218) Total hours facilitating Personal Finance class since 2020
(16) Total hours facilitating Sean Covey 7 Habits class since 2024
($469,265.35) Since 2020 we have had (8,883) days of residents not incarcerated at ($52.61) per day saving Elkhart County Approx. tax dollars.