SAN ANGELO, Texas — The Tom Green County Detention Center is giving inmates an opportunity to learn basic kitchen skills through its "IN2WORK" program.
By the end of the program, graduates earn a Food Service Management certification from The National Restaurant Association that will help them land a job once they are released.
“It’s been a vision of ours for quite some time, when we designed this jail it was one of the things that we wanted to get started with,” Tom Green County Detention Center Jail Administrator Major Todd A. Allen said.
The IN2WORK program is under the instruction of Aramark staff member Jessica Everidge and TGC Corporal Christina Guiliano. Both Everidge and Guiliano work together to make sure inmates meet all the requirements to graduate from the program. Inmates accepted into the program obtain kitchen basic training and work towards their certifications.
“Being able to work one on one with them and letting them know this isn't it and they have more options really pushes them to work harder,” Guiliano, who is the Tom Green County Detention Center Inmate Program Coordinator, said.
The TGC Detention Center will begin a “IN2WORKRETAIL” starting January 2022.
“With the success we’ve had with our kitchen side, I’m really excited to see what retail has to hold because we’ve had some great guys come in and complete the restaurant side of it and so I am really excited,” Guiliano said.
The TGC Detention Center hopes to incorporate trade programs for inmates in the near future.
