In 2016, Brenda received a call from the Alabama Department of corrections to inform us that The Lovelady Center was partially responsible for a decrease in the recidivism rate across our state due to the number of women who have gone through our program. In addition, Lovelady has the only State Supervised Re-entry Program in Alabama. This allows certain prisoners to complete their sentence at Lovelady. Using the Department of Correction’s own financial data, we have saved the state over $3.8 million by housing women at The Center instead of at Tutwiler.