Inmates build Habitat for Humanity home
Prison inmates will work on one house per year, for five years
CBC News
Posted: Oct 3, 2012 9:17 PM CST
Last Updated: Oct 3, 2012 9:26 PM CST
Inmates of a minimum security prison are working on a Habitat for Humanity home. (Ryan Pilon/CBC)
The charity Habitat for Humanity has teamed up with prisoners in Prince Albert, Sask., to build a home for a family in that community.
The Riverbend Institution is a minimum security prison.
The new family will move into their home in December.
"It's very exciting," Tracy Rabut said. "It's just nice that I'll be able to own a home and build equity and just have that security for me and my children."
The plan is to have inmates build one home per year, over five years, with the charity.
Prison officials said the work gives inmates skills that can help them once they are back in the community.
"We frequently have phone calls back from offenders... along the lines of 'Hey, I got a job. I'm on a framing crew'," Jary Mitchell, the operations manager at the institution, said, noting that inmates in other institutions have been teaming up on building projects for the past six years.
With files from CBC's Ryan PilonShare Tools
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