CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Through a partnership with the Nueces County Sheriff's Department and Del Mar College, inmates have constructed a storage building for local nonprofit, New Life Refuge Ministries.
The county jail inmates are taught construction skills by college instructors, a job that's in high demand here in our area. The goal is that when they're released they're able to find employment or continue their education at Del Mar with a head start.
Nueces County Sheriff J.C. Hooper said they've completed 16 sessions of the program with completed projects being used throughout the county, but now they'll be going even further.
"We're at a point now where we can gift them to nonprofits in our community and so New Life Refugee Ministry is the first nonprofit to receive one of these and we're happy to do it," Hooper said.
The sheriff says they'll have more to donate each session, so if you have a nonprofit that could benefit from the program just give them a call at (361) 887-2222.
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