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| DOC inmates given a second chance to learn skills and work on AZ egg farm |
| By fox10phoenix.com- Troy Hayden |
| Published: 11/10/2015 |
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TONOPAH, Ariz. (KSAZ) - A line-up, a search, and a secured bus ride. It's not a shakedown; it's a commute to work. Seven days a week inmates serving time behind the walls of Arizona prisons get out and get a taste of civilian life: exchanging a prison cell and a prison yard for a hair net or a welder's helmet, and they go to work at Hickman's Egg Farm. "Everybody makes mistakes, I was young when I made my mistake, and I'm gonna get out and be a different person," said James Ali. Ali like all participants in the program is not a violent offender. When FOX 10 spoke with him, he was helping build a new barn at Hickman's Tonopah egg farm. His job, stick-welding is a skill he learned on the job. When he gets out in two years, he will have a new skill. "I'm looking forward to a new start and a new career welding somewhere," he said. Read More. |
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