The Pathways to Hope program, which boasts a 6% reincarceration rate, hopes to educate North Texas inmates so they can find housing and keep jobs when they are released from the Green Bay Jail in Fort Worth.
Teachers and Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Wayborn hand out certificates to graduates of Pathways to Hope, a program that aims to educate inmates so they can more smoothly reintegrate and lower the county’s recidivism rate.Packed into the library at the Green Bay Jail in Fort Worth, 17 inmates along with their teachers and a few family members were getting ready for a small, quiet celebration.
So far, the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office says the reincarceration rate for the 141 graduates is around the 6% they were hoping for. In the program, the men learn skills that could help them get jobs, including training in trades like welding, as well as the importance of things like showing up on time.
They heard how Clark lost his leg in Vietnam, how it made him angry and how important it was that he had support from loved ones when he got back home. He said that the struggles he faced and the difficulties the men will have when they get out of jail are not that different. They’ll need stay out of the places and away from the groups that got them there.It means that the crimes that got them sentenced to jail are a symptom of a something deeper.
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