The Women's Therapeutic Residential Center (WTRC) is a time building prison with a mission to provide a healthy, safe and secure environment within which gender responsive treatment, educational services, career development and reentry services focus on changing criminal behavior.  The facility is operated at the West Tennessee State Penitentiary, Site 1.  WTRC is a modified women's therapeutic residential community behavioral model program that serves female offenders.  It is a highly structured environment where peer interaction mediated through a variety of group processes is emphasized as the medium for change.

https://tn.gov/correction/article/tdoc-womens-therapeutic-residential-center

Women's Therapeutic Residential Center
480 Green Chapel Road
P.O. Box 1150
Henning, Tennessee 38041-1150
(Lauderdale County)
(731) 738-5044

*Use P.O. Box 1150 for inmate correspondence.

New Women’s Therapeutic Residential Center aims to help inmates reclaim lives

November 14, 2016  by  Amber Hughes  



LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Tenn. — With more than 21,000 state prisoners across Tennessee and the female population doubling over the last 15 years, the Tennessee Department of Correction is experimenting with new programs.

WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News was the first news crew granted access the new Women’s Therapeutic Residential Center in West Tennessee.

Behind the locked doors and barbed wire of the West Tennessee State Penitentiary in Henning, female offenders are embracing new programs designed to keep them out of trouble.

“90 percent of our offenders will return to the communities in which they come from, so it is our duty to provide them with the necessary tools that they need to be successful,” Warden Trinity Minter said.

The Women’s Therapeutic Residential Center opened in August, focusing on instilling practical skills not available in traditional prisons.

“They have more programs here that’ll be able to get a real job outside of here,” Samantha Lewis, an inmate, said.

“There’s a lot to do,” said Shibhan Skeeter, also an inmate. “It doesn’t even feel like you’re in prison, honestly. It really doesn’t.”

Beyond group substance abuse programs, inmates with a proven record of good behavior can spend time in the kitchen, computer lab, wood shop or hair salon, or even earn their GED.

The women said they have benefited from programs putting an emphasis on rebuilding families and broken relationships.

“You know when you speak to your family and you have interaction with your support system on the outside, it makes your time so much easier as well,” Skeeter said.

Inmates have access to technology with funds from their commissary fund. They can use kiosks for video visitations and even buy tablets for emailing family members.

Proponents said research shows this type of approach to rehabilitating inmates, not just punishing them, has proven results.

“I think it will keep a lot of people from coming back because they are going to be prepared to live the proper way,” Lewis said.

“We’re going to be a model that other states will follow,” Warden Minter said. “We are doing some good things at this facility that is really going to be inspiring to other correctional agencies.”

http://www.wbbjtv.com/2016/11/14/new-womens-therapeutic-residential-center-aims-help-inmates-reclaim-lives/

Youtube: WTRC at WTSP

Youtube: Women's Therapeutic Residential Center at WTSP: Reentry & Rehabilitation

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Swung by this nice looking facility on my way to Fort Pillow. I must say, they maintain there yard very well. Nice green grass, no doubt the tears of the prisoners are keeping it well watered. Very nice looking fences, very shiny and very tall for some weird reason. I'm not sure why they insist on putting barbed wire fencing up, who would want to leave this 5 star hotel. Tons of room to expand by the looks of the acreage they have. I would almost visit this place if I wasn't such an outstanding law abiding citizen.

Oh my god
I had to read your post twice. I took it seriously the first time and had the face. Then got the joke

There are several of us here that live in the Memphis area. You might be able to get someone to go "visit" her.

beautiful

This

Yep, pretty much, a nasty combination of coco-butter, state issued soap, and stinking pussy.

Damn. That's pretty detailed. I can almost imagine it.

I have thought for some time felons should be sentenced to a rather difficult educational achievement.

Burglary = GED

Arson = Bachelor's degree in Swahilli

Murder = Double PhD in undersea sulphur-based molecular biology and pre-Ottoman Turkish