Goodwill Excel Center expanding to Shelby County Corrections Center
Former inmate Anthony Phillips, 21, was a featured speaker Friday, May 30 at The Excel Center graduation at the Orpheum Theatre. “Never let a person tell you it’s impossible to switch it up and change,” he told the crowd. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Hundreds of people incarcerated at the Shelby County Corrections Center will soon have the chance to earn their high school diplomas while in prison.
The Goodwill Excel Center, which offers high school classes to adults in Memphis, has plans to expand its diploma and workforce credential program into the prison facility at 1045 Mullins Station Road in January.
“The beauty of using Excel Center inside an institution is … (the people incarcerated) now have time to solely focus on themselves,” said DeAndre Brown, executive director of the Shelby County Office of Reentry.
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