director, you spoke a little bit about unicorp and how successful it has been. could you talk a little bit more about that program and how we could even improve upon the success and how congress can be a better partner helping those that will be coming back into society? >> i appreciate that, congresswoman. i think speaking about it and being able to support the program in itself often times we are criticized that we are taking jobs from the local communities and as stated earlier we have a board of directorses who oversees. it's a great program and the more we can keep inmates teaching them the trades. the other thing we are teaching them the soft skills of free entry. some of these folks have never had an actual job and punch the clock soac to speak. they are also earning a decent living for being incarcerated. part of that is paying for financial responsibility. a lot of them are able to help support their families. again, teaching that soft skill which is 50% of the mission of reentry. i have to stress we want the same thing, we want people to go back to soc

director, you spoke a little bit about unicorp and how successful it has been. could you talk a little bit more about that program and how we could even improve upon the success and how congress can be a better partner helping those that will be coming back into society? >> i appreciate that, congresswoman. i think speaking about it and being able to support the program in itself often times we are criticized that we are taking jobs from the local communities and as stated earlier we have a board of directorses who oversees. it's a great program and the more we can keep inmates teaching them the trades. the other thing we are teaching them the soft skills of free entry. some of these folks have never had an actual job and punch the clock soac to speak. they are also earning a decent living for being incarcerated. part of that is paying for financial responsibility. a lot of them are able to help support their families. again, teaching that soft skill which is 50% of the mission of reentry. i have to stress we want the same thing, we want people to go back to soc