This spring, juvenile offenders inside South Carolina’s Department of Juvenile Justice built the first Habitat house constructed within the state’s correctional institute. Habitat’s Central South Carolina affiliate then moved the home from Columbia to its permanent location in Richland County. An editorial in The State newspaper applauded the partnership, writing that the opportunity “could go a long way toward helping reconnect [youth offenders] to society and give them a sense of pride, responsibility and worth.”
