Orange Correctional Center

For more than 10 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.

Side by side, and in mutual support of Piedmont Community College, OCLC volunteers provide one-on-one tutoring, facilitate discussion groups, and mentor and support inmates in basic preparation for test taking and job preparedness. The OCLC volunteers manage the center’s computer lab and provide inmates instruction or independent study in learning and honing their basic software application skills.

In addition, OCLC’s Family Reading Program mentors inmates with children by introducing to them positive ways to connect with their children and family during their incarceration period.

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.

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.