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| Prison training site still stalled |
| By .journalnow.com |
| Published: 04/18/2011 |
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For the past year, the state prison on Craft Street has been waiting for permission to open a classroom where inmates could learn skills such as electrical wiring or auto-body repair. But red tape at the State Department of Corrections has so far gotten in the way. "They are telling me that they are going to try to get started before I retire … May 1," said Wallace Shields, superintendent of the prison, Forsyth Correctional Center. "This is a project that I wanted to see completed, but state government sometimes has other priorities." James French, deputy secretary of the State Department of Corrections, referred questions to the department's public affairs office. A representative from that office did not return a call on Friday. The classroom in question is a surplus trailer that had been owned by the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County schools. The school system sold the trailer to the prison for $1 last year, Shields said. Officials at Forsyth Correctional Center hoped to use the trailer for courses that could help inmates learn job skills. Those classes are currently held in offices off the prison's campus. The classes also include heating and air-conditioning and plumbing. The prison is an all-male, minimum-security facility that was built in the 1930s. "If and when we get our building set up and established, we want to bring those programs and have everything on-site," Shields said. Read More. |
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