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Employers mingle with federal probation officials Friday at the U.S. District Courthouse in El Centro during an outreach event for a subsidized on-the-job training program for low-risk offenders convicted of certain federal crimes. (SILVIO J. PANTA PHOTO / April 21, 2012) |
Daniel Machain knows of the ex-felons who “play the system” when given a chance to regain their economic footing and of the other offenders who honestly want to make a fresh start.
Machain on Friday spoke of one such person who faced many hardships that led him to smuggle drugs for money before getting caught and doing time in prison.
Two years after the ex-offender, whom Machain did not name, completed an apprenticeship program with the Imperial-based International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 569, the former offender is not only a foreman but Machain’s “right-hand man,” he said.
“He’s one of my instructors,” Machain said.
Machain was one of a number of employers who showed up at the federal courthouse on Adams Avenue in El Centro, where U.S. Probation Department representatives spoke of giving low-risk and non-violent federal offenders a second chance through a subsidized on-the-job training program.
To read the rest of this article, see today’s print or E-Edition of the Imperial Valley Press.
Machain on Friday spoke of one such person who faced many hardships that led him to smuggle drugs for money before getting caught and doing time in prison.
Two years after the ex-offender, whom Machain did not name, completed an apprenticeship program with the Imperial-based International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 569, the former offender is not only a foreman but Machain’s “right-hand man,” he said.
“He’s one of my instructors,” Machain said.
Machain was one of a number of employers who showed up at the federal courthouse on Adams Avenue in El Centro, where U.S. Probation Department representatives spoke of giving low-risk and non-violent federal offenders a second chance through a subsidized on-the-job training program.
To read the rest of this article, see today’s print or E-Edition of the Imperial Valley Press.
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