Morris Consolidated Schools which has about 200 inmates enrolled in the program.Īt the jail, inmates enrolled in the program spend two hours daily doing bookwork, studying on Chromebooks and using a virtual reality station to practice hands-on trades.īy doing this, the inmates earn credit toward time on tablets where they can watch movies, play music, do research in a free law library or play games. Locally, IGNITE is a partnership between the Genesee County Jail and Mt. So far, the program has been successful and has graduated 18 people who have either earned their GED or they are earning $16-18 an hour at a job with skills learned in IGNITE. IGNITE (Inmate Growth Naturally and Intentionally Through Education) helps provide inmates the tools they need to make better lives for themselves. Swanson appeared with Sheriff David Hutchinson, Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, on a streaming feed from the National Sheriffs’ Association conference in Phoenix to announce Hennepin County is the first department outside Michigan to adopt Swanson’s successful program designed to end generational incarceration.
PHOENIX, AZ - Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson announced June 23 from the National Sheriffs’ Association conference his department’s successful IGNITE program will be adopted by the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office in Minneapolis, MN. Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson and Hennepin County Sheriff David Hutchinson in Phoenix, AZ last week, announcing that IGNITE will be coming to Hutchinson’s Minnesota jail.
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