FRANKLIN COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB)– Franklin County has actually been tortured by unlawful drugs, particularly meth.
Constable A.J. Smith has actually been providing jail prisoners the chance to turn their lives around, through a drug rehab program called the Clean slate program, which began in 2017 to provide prisoners with resources to kick their drug and alcohol addictions.
The objective is to keep the prisoners from ending up being profession crooks and to provide a 2nd possibility, when they are out of jail.
For some former prisoners like Ashton Shiver, the program has actually been a success.
” When I initially arrived I was on drugs I didn’t truly care about anything and I believed everybody was out to get me and I didn’t like anyone in jail, particularly the officers, and I believed that I would simply return out of there and do a lot more things,” Shiver stated.
Shiver ended up being addicted to drugs at 13-years-old. Over the next 7 years, he had a lot of confrontations with the authorities.
By the time he was 19, he was dealing with a 1 year sentence in jail.
Shiver stated he believed when he went out, he ‘d go right back to utilizing drugs and devoting criminal offenses, however that was not the case.
” The important things they are revealing you in fact goes to life, your task, relationships, whatever. And you set those things that they taught you, those actions, and the manner ins which they reveal you to much better your life and you set those into your life and you understand that is your image from here on out,” Shiver stated. “You put that in front of you and take the actions and it truly does help.”
When he finished from the year-long program, Shiver went to a recovery house where he now works.
He continues to go to AA conferences and goes to church.
Shiver hopes one day he can begin his own service and help others having a hard time with addiction.
” More and more constables who run prisons are understanding that locking people up with no kind of programs or any kind of education or any kind of method for them to alter their life is absolutely nothing however a dish for them to go out of jail and dedicate more criminal offenses,” Smith stated.
Constable’s authorities stated they’re likewise assisting people, who are not in jail, enter rehab programs, complimentary of charge.