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On Friday, Safer Communities Ministry held a second-chance graduation class at Scotland County Jail after the clients finished Phase 1, the seven-week Life Skills program. On Saturday, they started Phase 2, which will require them to do one American Community Correction Institute 60-page workbook per week for the next seven weeks. Workbooks include anger management, substance abuse, dDomestic violence, theft, offender responsibility, cognitive awareness and DUI. Upon returning to the society, SCM clients will enter Phase 3, which is the SCM aftercare program. They will be directed in areas such as long-term drug treatment programs, transitional living houses, employment opportunities, etc.

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