Posted: 1:37 PM, Mar 25, 2019 Updated: 2:40 PM, Mar 25, 2019 By: Noëlle Lilley BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — The Taft Correctional Institution presented 45 inmates with certificates of completion during its Institute Nacional para Ia Educacion de Los Adultos (INEA) Program graduation ceremony on March 20. Completion of the program is similar to earning a … Continued
“Belcan and Job Corps, I would say, it’s kind of cliché, but they saved my life. Because before them, I was nobody.”
“And it also helped them to realize that the gifts that they do have can take them a whole lot further than the behaviors that got us locked up here.”
“I’ve been just on the phone this morning, kind of talking about future plans with Job Corps and talking about the opportunities that we have.”
“This is a unit for change. If you really desire change in your life, and you really want to make changes in your life, this is the unit to be on.”
Turner Job Corps has over 20 of its heavy equipment students, a part of the International Union of Operating Engineers, in Cairo, helping storm victims.
Turner Job Corps has teamed up with Sherwood Baptist Church to help the victims who are still suffering after last week’s EF-2 tornado in Cairo.
“Cleveland Correctional Center/MTC has a proven rehabilitation program that helps their residents…”
“These are career opportunities that are ripe for advancement and allow the participants to achieve high-paying jobs.”
“Now its not just a prison. It’s a working community friendship that we have with them, and they’re a huge part of our community. And we’re so blessed to have them.”