Eric Beamon, HOPE coordinator with MagCor, a company that provides realistic work experiences for sentenced, adult offenders residing within Mississippi correctional facilities, that can lead to gainful employment upon release, confers with event sponsors June 22 during the 2022 Mississippi Re-Entry Job Fair, in Jackson, Miss. The Mississippi Department of Corrections joined the Governor’s Job Fair Network in hopes of assisting inmates eligible for parole and those recently paroled and who have participated in one of the MDOC’s re-entry vocational programs with finding work.
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U.S. labor shortage provides opportunity for ex-prisoners
When Antonio McGowan left the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman after serving 17 years, he was free for the first time since he was 15. But as an adult finally out from behind bars, he immediately found himself confined to menial labor.
