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MDOC Welding 1 – MDOC Commissioner Burl Cain gives an interview for local media moments before officially starting the ribbon cutting of the new Mobile Welding Training Center which was opened Friday. This 53-foot-long 18-wheel trailer houses eight high-tech welding simulators that will be used to train inmates for careers in welding. The training simulator, which is a refurbished Mayflower moving van, can be used at all state correctional facilities. The mobile classroom will move between state prisons every 90 days, long enough for inmate apprentices to become certified. Instructors can train 32 inmates a day.
MDOC Welding 2 – MDOC Commissioner Burl Cain gives remarks about the Mobile Welding Training Center, accompanied by Executive Deputy Commissioner Karei McDonald and Deputy Commissioner of Re-entry Programs Pedro Moreno.
MDOC Welding 3 – MDOC Commissioner Burl Cain, left, watches as inmate Lily Elizabeth Johnston cuts the ribbon for the opening of the Mobile Welding Training Center with Deputy Commissioner Jay Mallett, Superintendent Marc McClure, and other women inmates look on during the ceremony held Friday at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County.
MDOC Welding 4 – Andrew Roberts, inmate instructor, demonstrates his skills in welding using the MDOC’s new Mobile Welding Training Center.
MDOC Welding 5 and 6 – Women inmates at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility will get the first chance to use the MDOC’s new Mobile Welding Training Center, utilizing state-of-the-art equipment in the form of monitors and other tools in the training of inmates for potentially lucrative careers after their release.
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We have just stated out mobile welding business in Lexington, KY. I think what you are doing here is wonderful. How do you go about helping the trainees after their release? Do you help them with job placement? WOuld love to learb if any are heading to my state and would like employment.