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Changing lives

OTC launches adult education program aimed at prisoners

Alima Mims speaks to prisoners in correctional facilities in Bulloch and Screven County as part of the “Student Success Speaker Series,” sponsored by the Ogeechee Technical College Adult Education Program. Mims spent 10 years locked up for possession of a firearm and burglary, but committed himself to becoming a firefighter and turned his life around. (Photo courtesy Ogeechee Technical College)

Alima Mims adult education program OTC — Alima Mims speaks to prisoners in correctional facilities in Bulloch and Screven County as part of the “Student Success Speaker Series,” sponsored by the Ogeechee Technical College Adult Education Program. Mims spent 10 years locked up for possession of a firearm and burglary, but committed himself to becoming a firefighter and turned his life around. (Photo courtesy Ogeechee Technical College)

In high school, Alima Mims was being recruited to play basketball for the University of Georgia. But at age 19, he found himself incarcerated at Coastal State Prison in Garden City.

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