JAIL RECEIVES TECH FROM FELLOWSHIP HOUSE GRANT

Technology has arrived for the better treatment of Substance Use Disorder. Through the funding opportunity with Fellowship House Birmingham’s Building Bridges Initiative grant, the Walker County Jail received two 75” smart board monitors and two iMac computers for tele-health, tele-therapy and legal proceeding enhancements.
 
The large size may seem a bit much but by splitting their locations into two venues we can greatly enhance the group sizes of some of our therapy sessions. Our current resources limit our group sizes and the inclusion of new single station tele-conference equipment will allow for greater numbers of inmates to receive therapy services from not only Fellowship house but other resource agencies.
 
These resources are invaluable for those incarcerated, because it expands our current capabilities, and looks to the future by growing the opportunity for inmates to have access to therapy, learning, and self-betterment programs via video conferencing. With these new resources, we can support more people, more types of counseling, more types of courses, and more impactful measures to help for our inmates. We approach incarceration from a rehabilitation, not punitive perspective, and continue to make strides daily to give inmates a chance to flourish into productive members of society.