Cape Cod Today
BOURNE, Mass. — In a effort to help make a better transition to life outside the bars, the Barnstable County Correctional Facility (BCCF) offers re-entry skills courses for inmates. Among those classes is a financial literacy class taught by Patricia Walsh and Kathy Moorey of Cape Cod Five.
“Having financially savvy citizens is a benefit not just to banks, but to the whole community,” said Walsh.
The local bankers taught two classes at the jail early this week--a men’s class with 54 attendees in the morning, and a women’s class for 30 attendees in the afternoon. All attendees are sentenced inmates and therefore eligible for the class, according to a BCCF release. Those inmates awaiting trial are not eligible.
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