Ole Miss Students Team Up With Inmates To Feed Children In Need

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (WCBI)- More than 100,000 meals are heading out to hungry children.

Students from the University of Mississippi’s Department of Legal Studies, teamed up with inmates from the Marshall County Correctional Facility to pack the meals in just eight hours.

The university has a partnership with the facility and the legal studies department chair, teaches restorative justice to a group inmates there which is how this project got started.

Now, the inmates involved had to pass the Ice House Entrepreneurship class.

Tuesday enough meals were put together to feed 277 kids, every day, for a whole year.

The meals will go to the Feed My Starving Children Christian nonprofit.

Students and the inmates involved say it feels good to be apart of something that makes a difference.

“Restorative justice is to restore things and we was able to restore just a little bit today. Showing our love that God has placed in us to put in boxes, to help someone else and we are thankful for that,” said Michael Knox who’s an inmate who took the class.

Senior Kornisha Johnson described the day as a blessing.

“To be able to give back to so many children is amazing, and also being able to work alongside the inmates has also been a positive thing, to let them know that they’re not what people say that they are,” said Johnson.

Over 150 inmates were part of the meal packing.

Many of the students say this project changed the way they’ll look at those who are incarcerated.