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| Program gives Chad wards better odds for second chance |
| By recordnet.com - Jennie Rodriguez-Moore |
| Published: 04/19/2013 |
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STOCKTON - When Tarrance Turner is released from prison, he will already have real-world experience refurbishing computers. Turner is a state ward working in a program run by Merit, a social enterprise, restoring computers and managing electronic waste at Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility southeast of Stockton. "Here, we make minimum wage, and we pay taxes, too," Turner, 22, addressed a group of community leaders touring the facility Thursday, organized by Helping Other People Expand (H.O.P.E.) to generate support for young inmates who are newly released from prison. H.O.P.E. partners with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide computer training, mentoring, gang prevention, job placement and other rehabilitative services. Read More. |
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