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Job training provides path out of prison
By tracypress.com- Michael Langley
Published: 05/30/2014

When Warden Jerome Price first worked at Deuel Vocational Institution in 1987, the state prison had vibrant vocational training programs for prisoners.

By the time Price was appointed warden at DVI, 23500 Kasson Rd., in December 2012, those programs were long gone and the prisoners were unprepared to get jobs after their sentences were served.

“These inmates are coming back out in the community, and you want them to be viable citizens,” Price said in an interview Friday. “You want them to be able to work so that they’re not looking at when you go to work and go in your house and take all your property.”

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