Pound Pup Legacy

Unique Programs

• Children of Incarcerated Parents (CIP): Breaking the Cycle - Ohio's three county reentry pilot project helps to address issues facing families in our community when a parent is incarcerated. Franklin, Hamilton and Cuyahoga Counties have the highest percentage of offenders returning to the community and are home to the three pilot sites. Through an innovative collaboration between public and private entities, comprehensive services are provided to both the incarcerated father and their families in an attempt to form and maintain two parent families, improve employment opportunities, family self-sufficiency, and prevent future incarceration. Family programming takes place during incarceration as well as in the community once the inmate is released.
• Family Life Centers have been established at the Dayton, London and Richland Correctional Institutions. The Family Life Centers are dormitories within the institution designed exclusively for inmates who are participating in the CIP program and serve as the central location for the programming and other CIP related activities. In addition to serving as a housing unit, the Family Life Centers provide an atmosphere in which offenders are encouraged to take actions to make their own and the lives of their children and families healthier through parenting programs, education and enhanced family visitation.
• The New Beginnings Unit is currently housed in the Birch Unit.  The New Beginnings is a Community Service, Restorative Justice, Interfaith program.  Inmates will have the opportunity to give back to society by providing community service and participating in programming that will assist with gaining a better understanding of the impact their crimes had on their victims and to help inmates restore relationships. This program also gives inmate the opportunity to enhance their spirituality by living in an interfaith community.  Inmates will be able to develop a sense of awareness for other faiths and religions and gain a more sensitive point of understanding for their own faith.  Inmates will also be able to gain experience, skills and credentials for employment in the community upon their release from LoCI by participating in PUPP (Pets Uniting People Apprenticeship Program.)

Inmate Programs

Industries

• Brush, brooms, mops factory
• Dental laboratory
• Garment shop
• Data center

Community Service

• Pilot Dog program
• New Beginnings Fellowship Church
• London Historical Society
• London City Metro Housing

Career Technical

• Auto Technology
• Barbering
• HVAC
• Web Based Design
• Animal Trainers
• Culinary Arts

Academic

• Adult Basic Education
• GED
• High School
• Literacy program
• College programs