Volunteers
Volunteers enhance and expand the services and programs offered to the inmates. Volunteers permit increased personal contact for the inmates, broaden community resources for the facility, and increase public awareness of the correctional system. Volunteers supplement, but never supplant, activities of employees of the facility.
The volunteers express their interests and capabilities they have to offer as a volunteer on the application to volunteer. Their assignment to a specific area of the jail is based on this information. Volunteers are interviewed, screened, given a handbook and provided orientation training prior to being used as a volunteer. They are provided a code of ethics, informed on the rules and regulations of the facility, trained on staff and inmate relations, counseled on confidential information, informed on what to do in case of emergencies and are elicited to submit suggestions regarding the facility. Volunteers may be used in:
If you would like to volunteer your talents and services to the facility, contact the Deputy Superintendent of Programs at 804-633-0043, extension 144.