For DOC Officials & Legislators

A model built for
outcomes, not optics

Remedy Reign is a wilderness-based tribal rehabilitation program targeting the 76% recidivism rate that conventional incarceration has never solved. We're seeking one DOC partner for an inaugural pilot.

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The Problem

The current system guarantees recidivism

Incarceration as practiced today is expensive, overcrowded, and demonstrably counterproductive. The data is not a matter of debate.

76%
Of released prisoners are rearrested within 5 years. The system does not rehabilitate — it cycles.
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2018
$45K+
Average annual cost per incarcerated person nationally. High-cost states exceed $80K/year.
Source: Vera Institute, 2023
2.1M
People incarcerated in the U.S. — the largest prison population in the world, by total count.
Source: Prison Policy Initiative, 2024

The cycle runs on itself. A person exits prison without stable housing, employment history, or a functional support network — into the same environment that produced the original offense. Standard parole and probation provide supervision, not transformation. Within three years, the majority return. The cost is re-incurred, with compounding damage to families, communities, and state budgets. No amount of supervision changes what incarceration cannot address: identity, belonging, and the absence of a reason to choose differently.

The Remedy Reign Model

Tribal healing, not punitive isolation

Remedy Reign replaces cell-based confinement with wilderness camp immersion. Participants serve sentence time in structured tribal communities — completing earned challenges for sentence reduction, building identity through belonging.

01 — Pillar
Tribal Community
Participants are grouped into intentionally diverse tribes — different backgrounds, offense categories, belief systems, and demographics — forced to build cross-tribal unity through shared challenge. Belonging becomes something earned, not assigned.
02 — Pillar
Holistic Healing
Wilderness immersion, restorative justice practices, trauma processing, and peer mentorship address root causes — not surface behavior. Each tier of the program introduces deeper accountability before greater autonomy.
03 — Pillar
Earned Reintegration
Sentence reduction is tied directly to challenge completion across four tiers: Foundation, Confrontation, Integration, and Leadership. Participants can reduce a 10-year sentence to 6.5 years through demonstrated transformation — not time served passively.
04 — Design
Intentional Diversity Composition
This is the distinguishing structural choice. Every camp deliberately mixes offense categories and backgrounds. Cross-tribal unity — the only program feature that mirrors real-world social integration — cannot emerge from homogeneous groupings. This is the mechanism that makes transformation durable.
What makes this different
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All offense categories — not limited to nonviolent or drug offenders. The model applies across the offense spectrum.
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Wilderness immersion — full removal from urban environments that reinforce prior identity and criminal networks.
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Tribal healing framework — identity formation through belonging, not individual therapy in isolation.
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Sentence reduction incentive — creates real behavioral motivation. Completion is measured, not assumed.
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Voluntary participation — self-selection filters for motivation. Non-participants remain in standard custody.
Legislative Alignment

Built for the policy environment emerging now

Second-look sentencing and expanded parole frameworks are advancing in multiple states. Remedy Reign is the intervention that makes those outcomes successful.

Maryland HB 853
Second-Look Sentencing Act
Establishes a mechanism for courts to revisit sentences after a period of incarceration. Requires demonstrated rehabilitation as a threshold for reconsideration — but does not define what rehabilitation looks like in practice.
Remedy Reign's four-tier challenge progression creates the documented, verifiable rehabilitation record that HB 853-style proceedings require. Each challenge completion is a timestamped milestone, not an assertion.
Maryland HB 1123
Expanded Parole Eligibility
Broadens eligibility for parole consideration based on program participation and behavior during incarceration. Creates pathways for earlier release — but early release without transformation produces early reincarceration.
Remedy Reign participants return to society with tribal identity, accountability history, and peer networks — not just a certificate of completion. The program produces the underlying change that expanded parole assumes but cannot create.

Second-look sentencing and expanded parole are tools, not solutions. They create legal pathways for release based on the assumption that something changed. Remedy Reign is the mechanism that ensures something actually did.

Competitive Positioning

No existing program combines all of this

Alternative programs exist — boot camps, faith-based facilities, work-release, therapeutic communities. None combine the full stack that Remedy Reign deploys.

Feature
Remedy Reign
Boot Camps
Therapeutic Comm.
All offense categories accepted
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Wilderness / nature immersion
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Intentionally diverse groupings
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Tribal identity / belonging model
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Sentence reduction incentive
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Four-tier documented progression
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Voluntary self-selection model
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Projected Outcomes

The numbers that matter to a budget committee

Rehabilitation programs are ultimately measured on two axes: recidivism rate and cost per participant. Remedy Reign targets meaningful improvement on both.

<20%
Target Rearrest Rate
vs. 76% national average. Based on comparable wilderness-immersion program outcomes and the structural advantage of voluntary participation.
76%
National Rearrest Rate (5-Year)
BJS, 2018 — the baseline Remedy Reign is designed to displace.
~35%
Average Sentence Reduction
Participants completing all four tiers (Foundation → Leadership) reduce a 10-year sentence to ~6.5 years served.
Cost per participant / year
Traditional incarceration (avg.) $45,000+
Remedy Reign camp program ~$29,000
Est. savings per participant / year $16K+

Cost projections based on wilderness camp program operational models at 50-participant cohort scale. Pilot costs may differ; detailed projections available on request.

Schedule a Pilot Discussion

Let's talk about
what a pilot actually looks like

We're in early conversations with DOC officials and state legislators about a pilot cohort. If you're evaluating alternatives to traditional incarceration — for budget, recidivism, or legislative alignment reasons — this is the conversation to have.

We respond within 2 business days. No sales process — just a direct conversation.

Request received.

We'll be in touch within 2 business days to schedule a call. If you need to reach us sooner, email remedy-reign@polsia.app.

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