The News & Record has a nice piece about the closing of Guilford Correctional Center, a casualty of state budget cuts.
It's sad for a number of reasons - the fact that Guilford County inmates will be imprisoned further from home, the loss of highly effective community volunteer programs with the inmates. But mostly it sucks because GCC, a minimum-security prison - was a place where institutionalized prisoners could transition back to society through work release and contact with the community.
GCC's superintendent is one of the most amazing people I've ever met. I profiled him for our Web site - he's an alumnus - and was blown away by his philosophy toward corrections. I hope that he's able to do some good in his next assignment.
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