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Detroit job fair to offer second chance to the formerly incarcerated
By freep.com- Angie Jackson
Published: 06/20/2019

After two stints in prison totaling a dozen years, Stephen Lacosse credits much of his current stability to an employer who didn’t hold his felony record against him.

The 34-year-old Fowlerville resident first began working for a family-owned stone and tile contractor in Warren as a teenager. When Lacosse was paroled last year after a prison term for a fatal hit-and-run crash, that company welcomed him back on a probationary period.

"And then just seeing that I had my head in the right place, then they gave me a $6 raise," said Lacosse, a marble mason with the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 2 union.

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