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| Behind-bars training to help inmates find jobs in construction |
| By wzzm13.com- Jennifer Dixon |
| Published: 01/23/2017 |
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In a classroom with bars on the windows and views of the razor wire that surrounds the Detroit Reentry Center, inmate Mathew Hernandez is learning how to safely remove asbestos and lead-based paint, skills he hopes will land him a construction job when he's released. "I want to be a legitimate citizen. I want to ... actually be an asset to the community, instead of a leech," said Hernandez, 33, whose addiction to pain pills following a workplace injury culminated in a guilty plea to robbery charges in late 2015. With the unemployment rate at 76% among newly released prisoners in Wayne County, the City of Detroit is using a $4.5-million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to prepare inmates such as Hernandez for jobs in environmental work, culinary arts and fork-lift operation. According to Mayor Mike Duggan, all these fields are hiring workers in Detroit. "We went and looked at where employers were hiring right now," Duggan said. Read More. |
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