PROGRAMS VISION STATEMENT

Setting the standard for excellence as an innovative component of the MCSO focused on improving the quality of life for those we serve.

PROGRAMS MISSION STATEMENT

To make our community safer by offering a broad array of relevant services, which provide those we serve with opportunities for positive change.

Welcome to the Programs Department. When elected in 1994, Sheriff Jim Pendergraph made a commitment to improving the community. Treatment and education are the vehicles for those inmates who are determined to change their lifestyles.  To this end, the Sheriff's Office has been instrumental in expanding inmate programming within the jail facilities.

The goal of Inmate Programs is to provide the inmates housed in the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office detention facilities the opportunity to address those issues that may have contributed to their criminal behavior and subsequent incarceration.  While incarcerated, eligible inmates have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of therapeutic, educational and literacy programs.   Because we have partnered with various community agencies, continuing treatment and educational opportunities are available for inmates who are released.

Since classes cover a wide array of subject matter, they are catalogued under the following headings: 

• Education & Literacy
• Specialized Populations
• Library Services
• Spiritual

Eligibility for participation is determined based on an inmate's security classification, classes available and location of the class.