Working through qualified non-profit farm worker housing development organizations, housing components can be built inside the prison and also constructed on site using offender labor. Avon Park Correctional Institution and Hardee Correctional Institution will be the first locations to start building housing through its vocational education programs. Offenders learn and practice a marketable job skill and help to meet a serious community need. Good surplus computer equipment is donated to the Foundation by business and government for use in the Computers for Florida Kids program. Computers are refurbished in the prison vocational education program and then donated by the Foundation to schools and other programs serving Florida children.
Offenders learn a marketable skill and children receive equipment to learn.
Donations of computer equipment are needed. The museum is located in near Wakulla CI in the staff training center at 33 Malaleuca Drive in Crawfordville, Florida. The training center and the museum are open to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. The Foundation has assumed a role in developing the museum with a mission of staff development support and community education. We have applied for a Florida Department of State Exhibit Grant to create special exhibits that tell the story of the Department's legacy of public safety through video and artifact displays.