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| Inmate jobs on the way back |
| By The News Tribune |
| Published: 08/25/2008 |
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WASHINGTON - Four years after they were thrown out of Washington prisons, private companies are being asked to come back to provide jobs to inmates. The state Department of Corrections has hired a recruiter to contact chambers of commerce across the state to drum up employers for its born-again Class I Correctional Industries program. The recruiter also is contacting the companies that used to have employees working for them inside the prisons. There once were as many as 300 inmates working in the top tier of the Correctional Industries program. But the state Supreme Court ruled in May 2004 that the program ran afoul of the state constitution, so the DOC shut it down and told more than a dozen businesses to clear out. Last November, voters changed the constitution so prison officials could again invite private companies to set up shop inside some of Washington’s 17 prisons and provide jobs and training to prepare inmates for their eventual release. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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