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‘We Will Not Sit on the Sidelines’: John Legend’s Proposal for Ending Mass Incarceration
… of our school system, we lose ground in the global economy. While at the prison, both groups visited the Trades Related Apprenticeship Coaching Program , a state-accredited pre-apprenticeship effort involving the Laborers ( LIUNA ), Carpenters and Ironworkers unions. Through a 16-week program, inmates … who’s been in and out of prison most of her life because of drug addiction. But when given the chance, she enrolled in an apprenticeship program and is committed to getting a union job upon release, regaining custody of her children and rebuilding …