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The Joint Venture Program helps businesses reduce costs to improve profitability.

“Our profitability has increased by 15% since we became a Joint Venture.”

—Ground cover nursery operation

Using Our Resources in Ways That Benefit Both Private Interests and the Public Good

Win-Win - for You, California, and Inmates

The JVP works with organizations to employ inmates and to provide them with labor opportunities to learn valuable job skills.

The JVP is for a variety of businesses who are planning to expand, open a new enterprise or division, returning from offshore, or relocating to California from another state.

Your Profit.
Their Opportunities.
Our Commitment.

The Joint Venture Program (JVP) provides vocational training opportunities to inmates within California’s correctional settings. It offers businesses attractive benefits for employing them. These individuals gain enhanced job skills, which allows them to return more successfully to the community as productive citizens after serving their time. A very successful correctional rehabilitation program, the JVP has a recidivism rate of 9%.

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JVP business benefits include:

Reduced lease rates >>

Reduced Workers Comp rates >>

No employee benefit costs >>

Tax credit >>

Made in the USA label >>