Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office The ribbon-cutting for the Mecklenburg County Detention Center's new barber school. The school, called Ausie’s Barber School, is the first of its kind in the state’s jail system. North Carolina requires barber school students to complete 1,528 hours of course instruction before taking the exam. Detention centers and prisons throughout the country have begun establishing beauty and barber schools as part of their educational training. Rivens said local officials expect the barber school program to be even more successful than everyday education programs at the detention center.

Source: Huffington Post April 17, 2019 00:33 UTC