The mission of PRIDE’s inmate training is to conduct a comprehensive workplace training program that promotes the rehabilitation and employability of PRIDE workers and optimizes the productive performance of the industries to which they are assigned.

• To promote rehabilitation through meaningful job training and work. To train workers in the skills needed by industry management to optimize industry operations.
• To prepare workers for post-release job placement and continued employment in the community to which they return.
• To instill in PRIDE workers the intrinsic value of work through competent supervision, training and counseling.

The hallmark of PRIDE’s inmate programs is its certified on-the-job training in which its industries operate formal, structured and externally validated occupational skills training. Inmate workers not only learn the technical skills connected with their specific job but they also learn the fundamentals of the work process itself. Polls have shown that employers give a great deal of importance to workers who are reliable, get along with their fellow workers and are willing to learn. PRIDE designed its training to instill these values in its assigned workers.

PRIDE’s OJT is a seamless process of training and work in which inmate workers can engage according to their individual needs, interests and abilities. It is comprehensive in that it encompasses both pre-release and post-release participation.

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