Inmate Programs

The Programs Department is responsible for implementing and maintaining inmate programs designed to assist inmates in becoming productive citizens upon their return to society.  To this end the following programs are available to qualifying inmates:

1. Alcoholics/Narcotics Anonymous:  Alcoholics/Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problems and help others to recover from alcoholism/drug addiction.
   
   
2. Cage Your Rage:  This program deals with anger management through the use of workbooks and videos.  The videos include dramatized scenes to stimulate discussion and demonstrate anger management techniques.
   
   
3. Positive Mental Attitude: This program is based on Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success.  It reveals his seventeen essential principles of personal achievement, with concrete descriptions of their implementation.
   
   
4. Life Without a Crutch:  This program is an introduction to recovery from addiction.  It describes what addiction is, its causes and effects, the rewards of overcoming it and ideas on how to begin.
   
   
5. Wellness Club:  While not an actual "club", this group concentrates on Wellness issues, such as stress relief, nutrition and disease prevention.
   
   
6. Corrective Action Program:  The program focuses on how the "con game" may be at the core of an individual's faulty beliefs and behaviors.  It guides individuals toward self-responsibility and positive life change.
   
   
7. Design for Living:  A Design for Living is a highly effective program for educating and treating offenders who are substance abusers.
   
   
8. Success with Stress:  Inmates are encouraged through videos, worksheets, and discussion to explore their own stressors and coping strategies and to make lifestyle changes where necessary.
   
   
9. Prison to the Streets:  This is a lifeskills program designed to help inmates prepare for their release from prison while incarcerated.
   
   
10. Peaceful Solutions:  This program assists the inmate in acquiring the basic life skills that will produce positive moral character and behavior enabling them to have successful, productive lives.
    
    
11. Bookmark Program:  This program encourages fathers and grandfathers to play a part in helping their children learn to read by reading and age appropriate book to them on DVD.
    
    
12. Responsible Thinking:  Inmates are taught to look at the thinking errors that brought them to their present circumstances and how they can work toward change.

1. ACTS Drug Program:  The Alcohol/Chemical Treatment Series (ACTS) Program is a 13-week program that centers on how addiction affects the body.
   
   
2. Making Peace with Your Past:  This 13-week program is for individuals who have a desire to grow as an individual and to learn from past failures and pain.
   
   
3. Parenting for Prevention:  This 7-week program is taught by staff of the Alert Regional Prevention Center from Ashland, Kentucky.  The aim is to equip parents to take the lead in preventing their kids from getting mixed up with alcohol and other drugs.
   
   
4. Master Life:  A 26-week study of spiritual principles leading to a certificate from the Sunday School Board of Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
   
   
5. Practical Living:  This is a 10-week program that concentrates on grief, suffering, communication, problem solving, empathy, truth telling, integrity, responsibility and developing trust in relationships.  Dr. Leonard Knight, Director of Graduate Studies at Kentucky Christian University, authorized and teaches this program at EKCC.
   
   
6. Anger Management:  Participants learn what their various sources of anger are, to stop their anger before it starts, the connection between violence and anger, the effects of substance abuse on anger and how to learn to live at peace with others.
   
   
7. Divorce Recovery:  This program allows the individual to deal with the different aspects of divorcing with the good of developing healthier relationships in the future.
   
   
8. Grief Share:  This 13-week Christ-centered program offers support to individuals who have experienced a major loss in their life - usually through the death of a loved one.
   
   
9. Creative Justice:  The inmates in the group write, develop and act in their own play to display what they have learned.
   
   
10. Experiencing God Study & Mind of Christ:  These two programs are 13-week studies and are offered 3 time each year.  They also are studies of spiritual principles leading to a certificate from the Sunday school Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
    
    
11. Financial Peace:  This program explains the basic steps to financial success and happiness; saving, investing, giving, credit card debt, interest fees and proper attitude toward money.
    
    
12. Improving Relationships:  This is a 10-hour course on the basics of healthy relationships.  This is conducted by volunteers from the United Pentecostal Church.
    
    
13. Prime for Life:  This is a 12-hour drug interdiction program usually attached to the Parenting for Prevention Program.
    
    
14. Prison Fellowship Seminars:  This program consists of close encounter weekends between inmates and volunteers.  It involves sharing and study in the preparation for life on the streets.
    
    
15. Residents Encounter Christ:  This program consists of a weekend of sharing between inmates and volunteers, usually in small groups.
    
    
16. Survival Kit:  This program is for new Christian Converts.  It explains the basic tenets of Christianity, enabling the new convert to begin his spiritual walk in a much stronger way.
    
    
17. Explore the Bible:  Christian fellowhip, prayer and verse-by-verse in depth Bible study.  This program helps the individual learn about the beginnings of creation and the history of man as they study the book of Genesis.
    
    
18. Joshua's Journey:  A 9 week study for new believers.  This study will establish the foundations of the individual's faith in Jesus Christ.
    
    
19. When God's People Pray:  An 8 week study that explains why prayer is so important in a person's life and how through prayer, they can communicate with God.
    
    

The Eastern Kentucky Branch Campus (EKBC) operates under a Memorandum of Agreement with the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS).  Qualifying inmates have three different types of educational opportunities to choose from - Adult Education (GED), Occupational/Technical (OT) programs and a college general educational Associate Degree:

Adult Education Program:  The Adult Education program offers classes for students functioning on any level of learning ability.  Pre-GED and GED exams are offered monthly for optimum student convenience and opportunities for success.

Occupational/Technical Programs:  EKBC offers five different OT programs.  The five programs are:  Air Conditioning Technology, Carpentry, Masonry, Plumbing, and Small Engine Repair.

College Program:  An Associate Degree in Liberal Arts is offered through the Hazard Community College's Lee Campus in Jackson, Kentucky.  Courses are delivered at night for maximum service to working students.