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Century CI Inmates Graduate With GED, Ready To Work, Thinking For A Change Certificates
June 23, 2012
Century Correctional Institution held a graduation ceremony Friday morning for inmates receiving their GED diplomas, Florida Ready to Work certificates, and completing a Thinking for a Change program.
Class valedictorian is Jason Chandler. He began an eight year sentence in February for robbery with a deadly weapon in Hernado County. Salutatorian was Joshua Dunham, serving a two-year sentence for child neglect, criminal mischief and marijuana possession. There were 10 inmates in all receiving their GED certificates Friday morning.
Also Friday morning, inmate Ronald Brooks received his Florida Ready to Work certificates. Florida Ready to Work is an innovative state-funded workforce education and economic development program that provides student job-seekers with a standard credential that certifies their workplace readiness and ability to succeed on the job.
Fifty inmates were also honored as Thinking for Change graduates. Inmates participated in daily structured activities which included a minimum of 10 hours per week of group or individual counseling on changing addictive and criminal thinking patterns and behaviors.
Friday’s graduation ceremony was the second for Century Correctional; the prison’s first graduation ceremony was held in April.
Pictured: Century Correctional GED graduates in April 2012. NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
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9 Responses to “Century CI Inmates Graduate With GED, Ready To Work, Thinking For A Change Certificates”
so proud of my husband Joshua Dunham we love an miss you and are very proud !!!!
Congratulations!!! I wish you all the best!
Awesome! It’s so nice to hear some positive news along with everything else. This is why it’s called a “Correctional Institution” and not simply a prison.
Echo others who posted…best wishes to all!!
CONGRATS to all you men! May you prosper when you return home. Remember that everyone makes mistakes and suffers consequences for their actions, but your accomplishment is a new beginning….run with it and be PROUD of yourselves….God bless you all!
Congrats! I hope you will find a good job when you get out and take advantage of this opportunity and not break the law anymore.
yes alot of companies are starting to hire felons. its the WOTC work opportunity tax credit. i know for a fact that ups has a program for hiring felons. there are many companies that will help its just up to them to find those.
This is what prison should be about, making people better. The ones who want to improve themselves anyway.
The ones who are not interested in anything positive can go to the butter bean field and the hot sun.
Good for them. They are making an effort but will anyone hire them? I hope so.