After receiving a steady stream of calls from employers asking us how to create second chance employment practices, we decided that the best way to help them was to highlight companies that have been successful in this area. About a […]
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Forget labels like ex-con and felon, realize that words matter and learn how to humanize language
Words matter. And how we refer to people who are – or were formerly – incarcerated matter more than most. At Jails to Jobs we have struggled since our early days to try to determine the words to use that […]
Jails to Jobs creates Second Chance Employers Network
Here at Jails to Jobs we get regular phone calls from companies asking how they can become second chance employers and hire workers who were formerly incarcerated. And we tell them that the best thing they can do is to […]