Pound Pup Legacy

Unique Programs

• Adult Basic Education (ABLE) is funded with Adult Basic Education funds through the Ohio Central School System. ABLE Roofing is a ten to twelve week program that targets offenders with reading scores below 6.1. The program offers training on the use of roofing tools, identification of roofing materials, figuring the amount of materials needed, and roofing installation. This program offers readiness skills to offenders to become successfully employed roofing helpers upon release.
• The New Life program is a modified 120 bed therapeutic community for offenders with identified alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems. New Life helps offenders develop the skills they need to maintain an AOD and crime-free lifestyle. Offenders participate in a 24-hour learning experience in which individual improvement in behavior, attitude, and emotions are monitored and mutually reinforced by staff and fellow program participants during the daily regimen. Within the limits imposed by a prison setting, the offenders, under staff supervision, run the operation of the community. This is accomplished by assigning various "crews" that are arranged in a hierarchy according to seniority, individual progress, and productivity. This social organization is fundamental to the rehabilitative approach of mutual self-help, work as education and therapy, peers as good role models, and staff as rational authorities.

Inmate Programs

Industries

Community Service

• Litter pick up for Ohio Department of Transportation
• Miscellaneous projects for City of Chillicothe
• RCC players (inmates) perform plays addressing the problems of addiction
• Pilot Dog program
• Provide math manipulatives for schools
• Landscaping and maintenance of school buildings
• Maintenance of ball fields for schools and Little League
• Make lap quilts, soft dolls, and animals for various charities
• Weigh livestock for Ross County 4-H

Vocational

• House wiring
• Environmental management
• General maintenance
• Barbering
• Building maintenance
• Administrative clerical program

Academic

• Adult Basic Education
• GED
• Hocking College

• Furniture manufacturing
• Furnishing Assembly and Shipping