I was thinking of a model built from a network of local churches, but have no involvement in the finances. True apprenticeships where the former inmates are employees of the teacher/mentor.
I know of a man that was doing it, but he wasn't as effective because he didn't have church support in terms of discipleship.
He’s been doing that sort of thing for years. His company is very small but he’s tried hiring released prisoners as much as he can.
It’s difficult because they don’t usually make good employees when the work gets hard.
The state thing was teaching the trade to actual prisoners to come out with some skills. Can’t do that without the state