Inmates at the Hubbard County Detention Center are offered a number of educational and work program opportunities while in custody. We believe that providing quality educational and work programs equips inmates with tools and work experience that can help them once they’re released. We also operate under the philosophy that inmates that can work, should work and be productive while in our custody.
Educational Programs
- GED preparation and testing.
- Adult basic education:
- Budget and Finance.
- Writing a resume, 4 Methods of Contacting Employers.
- Finding job leads: Data sheets and job applications.
- Interviewing for a job: before the interview, during the interview and after.
- Living Outside Part I: Preparing for a job, finding a job, getting along with co-workers.
- Living Outside Part II: Finding transportation, a place to live, managing money and taking care of your health.
- Parenting (uses curriculum from the University of Minnesota Extension office):
- Parenting Tools: Dealing with your own anger.
- Ten Commandments of Good Parenting.
- Parenting styles: Permissive, Balanced, Authoritarian.
- How Temperament Affects Children and Parents.
- Parenting from Jail
- Drug Proofing Your Child.
- Common questions kids ask when a parent is in jail. How to support a child in crisis.
- Cognitive Skills: “Change your thinking, change your life”
Educational programs are taught by trained educators through the Park Rapids Community Education program and paid for through grants from community organizations and through proceeds from the inmate canteen program.
Work Programs
Many inmates are eligible to participate in the Inmate Worker program. Inmates chosen for these positions will perform work in and around the jail including work in the laundry room, kitchen and general custodial work. Inmates offered positions as an Inmate Worker can work off fines that they have incurred as a result of their conviction. They work off fines at the rate of $6.00 per hour worked.
Eligible Inmate Workers can also participate in Hubbard County’s Sentenced To Serve program. The STS crew typically work outside of the jail performing work for the community. Crews work on disaster relief efforts, veteran’s memorials, public lake accesses, county, state and city parks and other non-profit projects. The projects benefit the community and the detainees learn job skills that can help them gain employment and become productive members of the community after their release.
This last year the crew helped clean up after the tornado that went through Park Rapids, helped with the flood effort in Otter Tail County and Moorhead among many other projects.
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