Televerde Helps Bring Business Skills to Inmates
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2014 issue of NCIA News. For more information on NCIA News, please go to National Correctional Industry Association(link is external).
“I was relieved,” Rebecca Morgan explained as she recalled her state of mind when she was arrested. For the previous three months, she and her boyfriend had been living in a stolen rental van. They only ventured out when the Crystal Meth supplies were exhausted, doing whatever they needed to — “mostly illegal stuff” — to score more drugs.
“For years I had just been flying by, no plans, no career goals. Just putting in my time at work for that pay check: my ticket to another high weekend.” Rebecca recalled, “I figured I was in control because I could hold down a job during the week. But, eventually, after lots of short-term jobs, being high was more important than all of that…”
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