CIU Prison Initiative plays vital role in preventing inmate suicides
South Carolina inmates enrolled in the CIU Prison Initiative provide an important listening ear to fellow inmates on suicide watch. The student-inmates have become known as Health Companions who routinely check on their peers who are going through significant challenges and may be suicidal.
That鈥檚 just one ministry of the 157 CIU Prison Initiative alumni who serve as chaplain鈥檚 assistants in over 20 institutions around the state. Each year about a dozen student-inmates graduate from CIU with an accredited Associate of Arts degree they earn while studying in cohorts at the Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia, just across the Broad River from CIU鈥檚 main campus.
Their important role as Health Companions caught the attention of the Charleston Post and Courier newspaper. Read the article 鈥.鈥
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