<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3Dl0AD_1GxYZ3o400" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3Dl0AD_1GxYZ3o400" width="1200" height="600" ><p>COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - Muscogee County Prison is receiving statewide recognition for programs designed to prepare inmates for a return to society.</p><h2>Proclamation and college partnership</h2><p>On Nov. 10, Senator-elect Teddy Reese presented the prison with a proclamation recognizing programs that help prepare inmates for life after release.</p><p>Through a partnership with Columbus Technical College, inmates can earn their GED and certificates in several programs.</p><h2>Job training programs</h2><p>Warden Herbert Walker said it is important to have programs that help inmates find jobs after release so they do not return to a life of crime. He said the prison has programs that certify inmates in welding, truck driving and other career fields.</p><p>Walker said more than 70 inmates have received their GED since he became warden in 2021. He said they are pursuing career goals for after their release.</p><p>“We have offenders that have taken those skills and became entrepreneurs, became business owners, owned barbershops started food trucks, we occasionally hear from those offenders thanking us for the efforts we’ve put forward,” Walker said.</p><p>“Offenders that’s about to be coming back into the community, we’re giving them a foot forward, of what they may be doing when they come back. Jobs skills, work skills, vocational skills,” Walker said.</p><h2>Reese and inmate comments</h2><p>“We are not here just to make someone’s life a living hell during the time which they are in this place. This is a correctional facility, where we are correcting behavior. We are trying to instill a new way of life,” Reese said.</p><p>An inmate who was not identified said the programs have affected his confidence.</p><p>“It definitely gives me a boost in confidence. I don’t think that I will have to struggle as much on the outside with being a felon. I feel like I have a new ground bases to start and I have multiple certifications that I can go and it’ll show what I have put work into,” the inmate said.</p><h2>Programs and poverty</h2><p>Reese said the programs also address poverty.</p><p>“When you look at impoverished people in our community, often times folks who have been incarcerated are a big part of that number because they can’t find things to do to help them out in life. So we’re fighting poverty through these programs. We’re helping people get back on their feet with these programs,” Reese said.</p><h2>Funding</h2><p>The certifications and the GED program are funded through crime prevention grants. The grants have been approved for funding next year.</p></div></body>

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COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - Muscogee County Prison is receiving statewide recognition for programs designed to prepare inmates for a return to society. On Nov. 10, Senator-elect Teddy Reese presented the prison with a proclamation recognizing programs that help prepare inmates for life after release. Through a partnership with Columbus Technical...

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