State officials announced more than a dozen new vocational programs at Kentucky’s adult correctional facilities across the state.
These new programs are part of the Governor’s reentry initiative which is designed to help inmates leaving incarceration find employment, addiction treatment, and education.
The reentry initiative is led by special advisor Kerry Harvey. He said this plan benefits those leaving incarceration.
“The governor's plan is a multifaceted effort to turn inmates into taxpayers, absent parents into role models, and the forgotten into law-abiding citizens.”
He said successful reentry has long-term benefits for the commonwealth too.
“This also means we will have less crime in Kentucky and Kentucky taxpayers can avoid the heavy cost of failed reentry, rearrest, re-incarceration, and all that that entails.”
Harvey said this also helps the families of those reentering society become stronger.
Last week, the Governor signed an executive order creating the Team Kentucky Office of Reentry Services.
All of Kentucky’s 14 state prisons have already established reentry centers. The centers operate inside the prisons and deliver focused life-skills training designed to prepare inmates for success upon release.
