The Floyd County prison emphasizes the effects on the community and the development of the skills at Rome-Floyd Chamber Event

Floyd County's prison guard, Mike Long, spoke in the Floyd Chamber this week in the Floyd in the region and underlined the unique advantages and the permanent effects of the community in the community.

In contrast to government institutions, the Floyd County Prison works with a high level of flexibility and enables itself to develop into a role that promotes the development and reinvestment of the skills.

Since the voters approved a working publication program financed with a splitue in 2006, the Floyd County prison has expanded the opportunities for inmates to gain experience in real world through several programs. Insenships that participated in the employment publication last year recorded almost 9,000 hours of non -profit services and earned money for their future and to pay the necessary compensation through employment in regular jobs – both economically and socially.

Every year, occupants in prison add programs such as:

• Save taxpayers over 100,000 US dollars by providing specialist services during the recent renovation of Floyd County.
• Maintaining three former Boat ramps of the Department of Natural Resources
• Construction of community pavilions and expansion of AG programs such as bees.
• Delete land on Richard B. Russell Regional Airport, where the prison is now operating a state -financed sawmill.
• Support for emergency and disaster clearance as well as the efforts outside the state in Louisiana and Kentucky.
• The transmission processes on Friday and Saturday, which led to £ 43,000 and hundreds of tires thrown away in the Fouche GAP area.

Warten Long told Floyd County Business Leaders that all of this was achieved by moving the focus of the mission of prison on the development of career competencies. The prison now offers skills-based rehabilitation programs in carpentry, welding, construction, strong devices, CDL driver training and technology training, including Microsoft Office certification.

Instead of publishing a detained person with a bus card and a check, these programs offer the occupants practical instruments for successful re -entry into the workforce and help to break the cycles of the relapse.