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Ex-offenders looking for second chance in workforce
By abc27.com- Mark Hall
Published: 05/15/2015

State Representative Patty Kim held a town hall meeting for ex-offenders on Thursday night at the Hamilton Health Center in Harrisburg.

Kim’s goal was to provide ex-offenders with information so will be better equipped to deal with some of the hurdles of trying to get a job with a criminal record.

Department of Corrections Acting Secretary John Wetzel says 18 to 20 thousand inmates are released every year; 59 percent are either arrested or back in the system within 3 years.

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