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Prison Partnership

 

 

Prison Partnerships are collaborative efforts among affiliates, correctional facilities and eligible offenders. Through prison partnerships, affiliates have the opportunity to expand house-building capacity by involving eager, cooperative and dependable offender volunteers, many of whom are already skilled in building trades. In Alabama, ADOC offenders are given the opportunity to work with Habitat for Humanity by producing completed housing components to be used in Habitat homes.

 

In April of this year, the program gave a huge boost to the Baldwin County HFH affiliate, when the offender volunteers were able to produce completed wall units which were transferred seamlessly to the Habitat building sites. The Prison Partnership will be working with Autauga County this month as they produce their first cabinet units. The Partnership will then begin its next project, and if the work done so far is any indication, we are in for another huge success. The offender volunteer’s second round of cabinet units are expected to ship to Mobile County in November.

 

The program, which was signed into action in October of 2006, gives offenders from Elmore and Draper counties, along with Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore and Frank Lee Youth Center in Deatsville, the opportunity to improve the lives of others while earning certifications that will offer them better employment opportunities upon their release. The work is done on the campus of JF Ingram Technical College inside the Draper and Frank Lee facilities, with the completed products then being shipped to the home building sites.

 

So far, there have been 42 offender volunteers involved in the program, all of them enrolled in educational programs. Since the program began, five of the workers have been released and of those five, four have found jobs as frame carpenters and one is now working as a finish carpenter.

 


 

AAHA is currently looking for sponsors or underwriters for this program to expand across the state. For more information on the Prison Partnership or to learn how you can become involved, please contact Art Pearce, Executive Director, at (334) 501-8441 or apearce@alabamahabitat.org.