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Job fair gives metro Detroiters returning from prison a second chance
By clickondetroit.com
Published: 10/14/2015

Barbara L. McQuade said it's her office's job to reduce and prevent crime.

McQuade said one way of preventing crime is giving former prisoners a job.

"We spend, as taxpayers, $34,000 a year to incarcerate one individual. I'd rather see us invest in people and helping keeping them productive and out of crime and one way we can do that is by giving them a job," said McQuade, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.

McQuade's office is working with Detroit Employment Solutions, the City of Detroit, Michigan Department of Corrections, U.S. Probation, U.S. Bureau of Prisons and CTC West Residential Reentry Centers for the 2015 Reentry Job and Resource Fair.

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