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With sound management and forward thinking, there are many programs that our detention center, when it's rebuilt, will be able to offer its inmates. Offering many, diverse programs is essential for several reasons: to improve the quality of life of our inmates and their families, to make our inmates-to-be-citizens employable upon their release thereby improving our community workforce, and to help fund our detention center.
The Kentucky Department of Corrections pays a county detention center $35.34 per day for each state inmate our detention center houses and pays an additional $10 per day per state inmate participating in an approved program.
Currently, our Graves County Jail offers various Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT), Portal New Directions, and GED classes. This is a decent start, but it's far from what we could and should be doing to rehabilitate people.
With our county size and population, our facility NEEDS a substance abuse program (SAP), similar to the one for which I was director at Fulton County Detention Center. I also, with the approval of the DOC, initiated and directed a Supporting Others in Active Recovery (SOAR) program. Graves County would certainly benefit from both of these programs, and it would be my honor, with approval from DOC, to start these programs in my home county.
Besides the two substance abuse programs, we could also offer the Phoenix Program (a trade-teaching program associated with WKCTC that McCracken, Marshall, and Calloway counties offer), a gardening program, a culinary program, and even an animal care/training program. All of these will prepare individuals to have employment once released.
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