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| Inmates building welding shop to offer job training for prisoners |
| By gainesvilletimes.com- Nick Bowman |
| Published: 07/13/2017 |
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Motivated Hall County inmates are being given the chance to end their sentences with a foot in the door of a living-wage job. As part of the statewide push for criminal justice reform, the state has for the past few years paid counties to enroll inmates in GED and vocational training programs and then paid them again based on their number of graduates. “One of the big pushes that the state has lately is getting inmates prepared for release,” Warden Walt Davis told the Hall County Board of Commissioners during a Monday presentation. “We know that the GED and vocational skills are two keys to hopefully eliminating recidivism when they get out.” Hall County has the third-most-successful workforce training program in the state for inmates, resulting in payments of more than $100,000 from the Georgia Department of Corrections. That money is now being used to build a welding shop at the site of the old Hall County Correctional Institution on Barber Road, Davis said. Read More. |
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