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Ex-Convict Employment Challenges

May 16, 2008
Barbara Hunt, Sr US Probation Officer
Bradford Glover, Coordinator for Prison Programs, CSN
John Casale, Facility Dir, Las Vegas Residential Re-entry Center Leon
Leon, ex-convict
... on the difficulties former prisoners have in finding work.

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