One bad decision can land someone in jail, and staying out after release can be even harder. The Mason County Detention Center is working to change that with programs that reduce recidivism and prepare inmates for life after release. Jailer Lisa Yeary, appointed in April 2017 and later elected, partnered with the Kentucky Department of Corrections to bring the classes, first offered in state prisons, to the facility. Mason County offers nine of the 14 programs available statewide, including moral reconation therapy, anger management, parenting and substance abuse. Inmates are referred based on needs identified by the Kentucky Risk Assessment System, and those who complete a program can earn up to 90 days off their sentence. “It helps them and changes them. They want those 90 days,” Yeary said. Erica Earlywine, a former president of the Flemingsburg School Parent-Teacher Organization, received a 10-year sentence, probated for five years, for unlawfully taking over $1,000 and four counts of solicitation to tamper with physical evidence. She had no prior record. As conditions of probation, she must serve 30 consecutive days in jail, pay $20,000 in restitution to Fleming County schools and file an affidavit explaining her role in the thefts. She began her jail time in July 2025. Earlywine attends anger management classes twice a week and works in the jail kitchen between them. “Moral reconation therapy has completely changed the way I think,” she said. “It has changed my life and taught me to be real and tell the truth.” Amber Mathis, serving time on a felony child support conviction, has been in and out of jail since she was young. She works in the kitchen and takes part in a master gardener program funded by commissary money. “Every time I come here, I get stronger, I get better,” Mathis said. “This time, I’ve had time to improve with these classes and work programs.” She plans to join the Welcome House in Maysville after her release, which she hoped would come in December 2025. According to the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, 70 percent of inmates released statewide over the previous two years had not returned to custody within 24 months, as of 2025. Earlywine is determined to stay out of jail. “It’s just opened my eyes to so much,” she said.

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