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'The path you choose to walk:' Hall inmates graduate from drug addiction
'No program thats more important,' Judge Fuller says of substance abuse effort
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Steve Dozier gets a piece of cake Wednesday from Sgt. Jim Lockaby, food service director at the prison, during the Hall County Correctional Institute Inaugural Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners commencement ceremony in Gainesville. Dozier was one of 13 prisoners who graduated from the RSAT program. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Seated in a 13-man group for graduation, Andre Porter heard his name as it rang through the chapel. He jumped up in his all-white outfit with “STATE PRISONER” stamped across the back, made his way to shake Superior Court Judge Andrew Fuller’s hand and took his certificate. And in that moment, Porter felt wanted.