Excerpt from WAVE3, published July 14, 2023
Written by Brandon Spencer
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Women at the Madison Correctional Facility are preparing to re-enter society after graduating from a Prison to the Workforce program Thursday.
The ceremony celebrated their journey to learn the tools necessary to thrive outside of jail and not return to prison.
21 women from the Madison Correctional facility became graduates from the Televerde Foundation’s Career PATHS Cohort Thursday and ultimately took the first step to the beginning of the rest of their lives.
It was a day that a lot of the women at the Madison Correctional Facility never thought they’d see.
The culmination of 6 months of hard work preparing themselves for release turned them into graduates.
“That and I’m really proud of myself in my cohort because I never really have that feeling of accomplishing something that is positive,” graduate Amy Smith said.