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Grant aims to give inmates skills to help them gain employment
By tampabay.com- Beth N. Gray
Published: 10/04/2016

SPRING HILL — Inmates at the Hernando County Detention Center will get an opportunity to learn some technical business skills, aimed at making them employable upon release, thanks to a $500,000 grant awarded jointly to CareerSource Pasco Hernando and the Hernando County Sheriff's Office.

The Project Re-Start grant is one of 10 across the country, designated by the federal departments of Justice and Labor. Dave Hamilton of CareerSource and Maj. Michael Page of the Sheriff's Office, who collaborated on the application, say they are in planning stages to identify inmate candidates to take part and to design classes, which will be held at the jail.

"We're looking at serving 100 individuals," Hamilton said.

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