From PENNLIVE.COM:
Pennsylvania corrections officials hope to allow private businesses to employ state prison inmates to teach more of them the job skills and work ethic they will need upon being released.
The state Department of Corrections is asking lawmakers to sign off on a bill that would authorize state prisons to join with private companies. Inmates would work at the prison, typically in manufacturing or parts work, for a company.
But with Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate hovering around 9 percent, the effort faces an uphill battle with lawmakers and labor officials, who see their constituents struggling to find work…
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