Real Time, Reel Life Video Series: Welding Program

In this segment of the Department's Real Time, Reel Life video series, we explore the Welding program, one of many programs that GDC provides to help offenders gain job skills and help them transition successfully back into their commmunities.
The Welding program at Walker State Prison is a combined effort with Central Georgia Technical College to prepare returning citizens for meaningful careers in the welding industry. By the end of the program, graduates will receive a Gas Metal Arc Welder Technical Certificate of Credit, and a total of 13 credit hours, which can be transferred to any technical college within the Technical College System of Georgia.

[josephholder]

Anything positive, I'm 100% for. I belive it gives these prisoners hope to look forward to and helps them do something productive. We often forget about the ones we jail. We are humans we make mistakes. Sometimes people need their faith in himanity restored. Even people in jail.

[Chicago]

I would like to know how soon after they get the certificate do they get "employment". Seems that once they get the certificate they should be released from prison. There's an old saying, if you don't use it you lose it.