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Vocational Village

Across Michigan, 400 businesses are hoping to hire graduates of the Vocational Village program, where 66 percent have jobs waiting for them before parole. The first-of-its-kind training program is a result of a partnership between Michigan and businesses to give prisoners marketable skills in high-demand fields like robotics and automotive technology.
 

 

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