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KCCC inmates recognized for Braille work

Idaho inmates at KCCC's braille lab
The Library of Congress is recognizing 13 Idaho offenders at Kit Carson Correctional Center for their work with the facility’s braille program. The offenders will receive certificates from the director of the Library of Congress’ librarian and the director of the LOC’s National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
“The offenders and staff at the facility are very proud of the success of this program,” says KCCC Warden Bobby L. Bonner. It provides great benefits to those who participate, as well as many visually impaired people in our boarder Colorado community.
Learning Braille transcription takes time and effort, and several Idaho inmates have become highly skilled with the process. KCCC’s braille lab works closely with the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind to transcribe text books, many of them at the college level. Some of the science and advanced math textbooks are especially difficult to transcribe but Idaho’s inmates have shown that they are up to the challenge.
“Many of the inmates work every day and even on the weekend to meet the completion due dates for the text books,” says Bonner. The work not only provides them a sense of accomplishments but also with a marketable skill set they can use when they leave prison."
Here are the names of the inmates who will receive Library of Congress certificates:
Collodi, David 84064
Fuerstinger, Robert 83901
Gallion, Eric 71323
Hall, Robert 59295
Knight, Greg 71058
Lake, Shawn 86234
San Nicolas, Joe 68265
Thurmon, Wayne 53780
Green, John 92907
Hernandez, Hector 100514
Neal, James 67870
Rolon, Antonio 68265
Copenhaver, Mike 41558
Kit Carson Correctional Center is a 1,488-bed, medium-custody, men’s prison in Burlington, Colo. The facility is operated by CCA.
Due a shortage of prison beds in Idaho, 234 inmates under the jurisdiction of the Idaho Department of Correction are incarcerated at KCCC.
Story published: 05/19/2014
