Orange Correctional Center

For Many years the Orange County Literacy Council (OCLC) has worked with the Orange Correctional Center in Hillsborough, a minimum security prison for adult males, and has tutored and encouraged inmates to pursue their vocational skills and educational goals.

OCLC volunteers provide one-on-one tutoring, facilitate small groups, and mentor and support inmates in everything from beginning reading skills to GED and college preparation. OCLC volunteers also manage the center's computer lab and provide inmates with instruction or independent study in learning and honing their basic software application skills.

New volunteers interested in working with the Orange Correctional Center must meet a particular set of requirements in addition to OCLC's standard requirements for becoming a tutor. A separate OCC application must be submitted which includes a criminal background check.

For more information about becoming a tutor at OCC, contact Joy Turner at jturner@orangeliteracy.org or 919-636-4457.

DIRECTIONS: Take I-40 to Hillsborough, exit 261, onto old N.C. 86. Travel toward town about one half mile and the prison will be on your right by the Department of Transportation. From I-85, take exit 164 and turn towards McDonalds. The unit is one quarter mile down old N.C. 86 on the left.