Time to celebrate
Celebration indeed!!! Things are starting to move on the inside! With our drop in tiers and the vaccination of every prison resident desiring it, the Donovan gates are starting to creak open. Visitors - meaning people with personal relationships with the residents - were allowed to visit one weekend. The volunteer clearance process has started for the hundreds of volunteers; wow, we're glad we're not the ones handling those logistics. And they continue to discuss how to reopen programming in the safest and most efficient manner.
Our team is stoked at the prospect of being back inside within a couple of months or so. It may still be a rollercoaster as the system learns and adapts to the optimal processes as well as the prison shuts down if and when any person associated with the prison comes down with covid. When there are 4000ish men inside, 1800ish staff and 100's of visitors and volunteers, it's a lot of people to monitor and keep safe.
But "soon," we'll be inside with our teams!
Are you interested in joining our team inside Donovan as this world opens back up? If so, simply reach us to us on the Contact page so that we can discuss your availability and interest. We'd LOVE to have you join!
In the hopes that your worlds are also feeling more open and more free while staying safe and whole, we hope you're also excited at the prospect we're soon inside.