East Mississippi Correctional Facility promotes transitional programs

LOST GAP, Miss. (WTOK) – The East Mississippi Correctional Facility is selling new and ongoing packages on the jail.

From Day with Dad, alcohol and drug abuse courses to pre-release and mock job interviews, they’ve quite a few alternatives for inmates to reinvent themselves. Deputy Warden Jeremy Andrews stated the vast majority of prisoners need to actually change their lives.

“We’re beginning a brand new program from Jail Fellowship. It’s the Nationwide Jail Fellowship Academy. They’re nationwide and likewise answerable for Angel Tree,” Andrews stated.

By way of these outreach packages, they hope to lower the speed of recidivism.

“Now we have recognized about 66 offenders. It’s a non-denominational non secular program. It’s a housing unit that’s dedicated to constructing ethical recognition remedy,” Andrews defined. “It’s not a lot by way of a particular denomination of faith nevertheless it’s utilizing non secular practices on methods to information themselves financially, spiritually, mentally and bodily.”

EMCF opened in 1999 and at present home round 1,350 inmates all of that are males. It prices $37 per day per inmate. They’re at present in contract negotiations in order that worth might change quickly.

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