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there's some very fine agencies. As a matter of fact, the state of California has in its Department of Employment, a special section to find employment for ex convicts and they're very successful at it. There are other agencies that will help, such as hospitals for training of

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medical nurses. Uh, the marine cooks and union storage union will train men with cooking experience and send them out on the high seas provided they don't have certain crimes in their background that the Coast Guard will not agree to such as narcotics. And then there are

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institutions such as uh, the Steelworkers Union, the Tunnel group of unions who will take ex convicts and put them to work and give them whatever read em entry training is needed. It's certainly not a hopeless thing. And then what does the seventh step do we act

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sort of as a liaison? A man will come in with a problem. We will determine what his job skills are, his educational level, and we also determine what his beef was, what he was sent to prison for. Well, then you're a liaison also with other employers.

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Yes, we have a list of people that we know are receptive to hiring a qualified man, regardless of whether he's from prison or what his problem is