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NC Representatives Talk to Prisoners about CCT!


June 2008

Speaker Joe Hackney and Senator Bob Atwater met with the five Mentoring Children of Prisoners grantees in May to make them aware that the Federal grant existed.

Shirille Lee, CCT! volunteer coordinator and multi-tasker, manages the MCP program which has successfully matched 27 youth of incarcerated family members in Chatham County.

Lee said "I was pleased with the interest that Senator Atwater and Speaker Hackney had shown in this project and their concern of the well being of the children in North Carolina, particularly those in Chatham County. Boys who have a father in prison have statistically been shown to be 7 times more likely to end up in prison than a child that does not have an incarcerated parent."