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Inmates building welding shop to offer job training for prisoners
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Part of the old Hall County Correctional Institute is being renovated as a welding shop to train inmates for the Re-entry Accountability Court Transition (REACT) program. The REACT program is partnering with Lanier Technical College in Oakwood. Offenders that make it to the transitional center portion of the program with a GED or high school diploma will have the opportunity to attend Lanier Tech to develop their skills further.
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.