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Culinary arts facility coming Delaware correctional center
By wmdt.com- Jobina Fortson
Published: 04/20/2016

SMRYNA, Del. -

With a renewed push across the country to reduce the number of people in our prison system, the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center had some promising news on Tuesday.

A new culinary arts training center could help inmates get some valuable new skills and make them Delaware's newest chefs.

The Department of Corrections revealed the plans for the facility. It will feature a commercial style restaurant kitchen and a classroom to provide on-site instruction to inmates. Right now the room is an unused cafeteria.

The center was approved in the General Assembly's 2016 fiscal year budget. It's projected to cost about $1.2 million dollars. Robert Coupe, the DOC's commissioner, says this addition will be a big benefit for the offenders.

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