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The new Wood County Jail has introduced over half a dozen programs to help inmates develop life skills.

Programs include job training like ServSafe, counseling, life skills, and recovery groups like AA and NA.

Inmates and staff report a noticeable positive change in attitude and hopefulness since the programs began.

The new facility also allowed for the expansion of previously existing programs, such as the high school equivalency degree.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS − When Wood County officials began planning a new county jail, one of the sheriff's top priorities was space for programming.

About seven months after Wood County inmates moved into the new jail, corrections officers are able to offer them more than a half dozen new programs designed to keep them from returning t

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