Inmates With Talent (IWT) does not glamorize prison. We use a unique creative and confidence-building approach to prevent a person’s relapse into criminal behavior.
Who could be the next Mark Wahlberg, Tim Allen or Curtis James ‘50 Cent’ Jackson III?
Mark Wahlberg served time and then rose to fame with his music group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch and then as an A-list actor with multiple accolades.
In 1994, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson was arrested for helping to sell cocaine to an undercover police officer. He was arrested again weeks later. Ultimately, he was sentenced to three to nine years in prison but ended up serving six months in a boot camp where he earned his GED. Jackson adopted the nickname “50 Cent” as a metaphor for “change.”
Famous comedian and actor, Tim Allen didn’t let the stigma of being an ex-con keep him down. In a matter of a few years, he went from a prison cell in Sandstone, Minnesota to the #1 television show in America, Home Improvement.
Mark Wahlberg, 50 Cent and Tim Allen are inspirations and living proof of directing energies in a positive way. And there are many more examples.
Inmates With Talent is about entertainment and change.
Additionally, we are mindful of the fact that people are incarcerated to pay a debt to society. Therefore, ‘Inmates With Talent’ does not glamorize prison. We produced a formula that reflects a progressive approach to rehabilitating prison populations. Entertainment is our therapeutic solution with comedy used as the catalyst for change.
A 2021 Bureau of Justice Statistics study found that 66% of people released from prison in 24 different states in 2008 were re-arrested within three years. At the decade mark, 82% had been re-arrested. Many of these arrests led to reincarceration: parole and probation violations and new sentences led 61% of prisoners released in 2008 to return to prison within a decade