(By Sheri Trusty, Seneca County Sheriff’s Office Public Relations Coordinator)

Many inmates in the Seneca County Jail have taken advantage of the opportunity to take GED classes offered through a partnership between the Seneca County Sheriff’s Office and the Vanguard-Sentinel Aspire Program. Now, qualifying inmates can also attend Aspire’s college prep courses. Aspire is a grant-funded program that offers free GED, college prep, and career prep courses for the general public, and it offers GED programs in several local jails.

But the Seneca County Jail is the only correctional facility, in our area, that offers the Aspire college prep program for inmates.

The pilot program was inspired when an inmate asked Seneca County Jail Case Manager, Grace Morehart, if there was a way to take colle

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