Mary organized a meeting with the administrator of the Men's Prison for yesterday and we started a discussion as .. what would be helpful for them to have? The suggestion last spring when I asked this question was the same...Barbering Equipment. In the best of all worlds it would comprise a structure like the Beauty Salon plus the required equipment. At this point I do not have resources for the structure but will try to get enough equipment for them to start and gradually gather funds for the building. They seemed quite pleased with that and are putting together a list with costs for me to see.
Administrator
I was given a tour of the whole place. They housed yesterday 923 inmates, for some they sleep on a mattress on the floor with blankets and pillow as there are not enough beds for all. The administration has set up a number of skill building opportunities: carpentry workshop, several sewing machines and they make all the uniforms for the guards, a shoe making operation, a classroom where they can work on school subjects, even get ready to go to college, and a bank of computers where I saw several working on Mavis (a learn to type program that we used at Flemingdon Park) and a small table with mirror where barbering is now done
I was very impressed with how much was done when there are actual funds in the budget for skill training. When asked; about 75% of the inmates never been to school. There are about 300 staff to maintain coverage for this operation. This is a beginning no matter how small it turns out to be.
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