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MCE Partners with Bea Gaddy Family Centers to Feed Those in Need

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:50:46 GMT

For over 30 years, Maryland Correctional Enterprises (MCE) has partnered with Bea Gaddy Family Centers, a nonprofit community based organization that assists its neighbors with food and other items, in a continued effort to help feed those in need in the Greater Baltimore area.

MCE Prepares Program Participants for a Second Chance

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:26:50 GMT

What is a second chance? A second chance is a new opportunity to succeed after a previous failure or mistake. Maryland Correctional Enterprises (MCE) offers a series of classes specifically to support and prepare our program participants for reentry into the community.

MCE C.A.R.E.S. Assists Program Participants with Opening Bank Accounts

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:32:00 GMT

Maryland Correctional Enterprises (MCE), Continuing Allocation of Reentry Services (C.A.R.E.S.), has partnered with Industrial Bank, a Minority-Owned Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), based in Washington, DC, to assist program participants with opening bank accounts to save for the future.

MCE Recognizes Second Chance Month

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:46:00 GMT

At Maryland Correctional Enterprises (MCE), we feel that knowledge truly empowers you. Our shops are the foundation of our reentry program providing important hard and soft skills that improve our program participant’s quality of life and chances for success. We augment this daily work with an ever-expanding variety of classes that can address multiple areas of interest and need.

MCE Continues Partnership with Bea Gaddy to Help Feed the Needy

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:28:00 GMT

MCE has partnered with Bea Gaddy Family Centers to help feed those in need in the Greater Baltimore area for over 25 years.

MCE Partners with Bea Gaddy to Help Feed the Needy

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:07:26 GMT

For over 25 years, MCE has partnered with Bea Gaddy Family Centers to help feed those in need in the Greater Baltimore area. Annually, MCE participants debone and cook turkeys in preparation for Thanksgiving dinner hosted by Bea Gaddy for families in need.

It's National Apprenticeship Week!

Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:11:00 GMT

National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) is a nationwide celebration to showcase the opportunities that Registered Apprenticeships offer for Americans to develop workplace experience and skills that employers value. In honor of the 85th Anniversary of the National Apprenticeship Act, the U.S. Department of Labor is hosting the 8th Annual National Apprenticeship Week (NAW)! This year’s NAW will take place November 14-20, 2022, at hundreds of events across the country. These events give leaders in business, labor, workforce, education and other critical industries the opportunity to showcase their Registered Apprenticeship programs, apprentices, and facilities to career seekers in their local communities. Additionally, apprentices have a platform to share their apprenticeship experience and how it has transformed their lives.

MCE's Partnership with Bea Gaddy Helps Feed the Needy

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:51:00 GMT

For over 25 years, Maryland Correctional Enterprises' parternship with Bea Gaddy Family Centers helped feed those in need in the Greater Baltimore Metropolitan area. Bea Gaddy, a name many in Baltimore are familiar with, was not only a Baltimore City Council Member but an advocate for those in need. This partnership is part of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Service's restorative justice project -- giving individuals the opportunity to give back to the community.

Telling Their Story - Dale

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 06:22:00 GMT

Maryland Correctional Enterprises’ mission is to “provide structured employment and training activities for offenders in order to improve employability upon release, to enhance safety and security, to reduce prison idleness, to produce quality, saleable goods and services, and to be a financially self-supporting State Agency.

MCE helps Bea Gaddy with Thanksgiving feast

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:28:00 GMT

MCE’s inmate participants from the Hagerstown Meat Plant have been preparing turkeys for Baltimore’s Bea Gaddy Thanksgiving Dinner for over 30 years. Despite the pandemic, we are still doing our part to make this commendable community event happen by cooking 200 turkeys that will be distributed to those in need.

Telling Their Story - Thomas

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:49:21 GMT

Telling Their Story - Bronwynn's Story

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 11:04:12 GMT

Preparing Returning Citizens for Reentry

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:00:00 GMT

Maryland Correctional Enterprises (MCE) focuses on preparing incarcerated individuals for re-entry, which refers to the process of planning to be released from jail or prison and returning to local communities. Reentry has become quite a buzz word utilized by many agencies. Despite enormous monetary and personnel investments into this field, there is still confusion about what might be needed, required, or possible. Maryland has recruited many players for teams whose sole goal is to pave the way for parolees to have a life outside the fence.

How MCE is Changing Lives - Introducing Telling Their Story!

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 16:46:00 GMT

As you are viewing this blog post, most likely you are already familiar with MCE’s slogan:When you buy from MCE you are not just buying a product - you are changing a life. To prove it isn’t just a slogan, we reached out to former MCE participants and invited them to share their stories with the world.

Who is Maryland Correctional Enterprises?

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 21:06:00 GMT

Six years ago, I was fortunate enough to join the wonderful team at Maryland Correctional Enterprises (MCE) and enter a world I admittingly knew very little about. As the daughter of a police officer and an extremely paranoid mother, you can imagine their excitement when I called home to tell them I had gotten a job in the prison system…