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(Although accurate national recidivism rates are hard to come by, the U.S\
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(Property offender recidivism jumped nearly six percent. )Tj
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(Violent offender recidivism raised slightly to two percent. )Tj
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(The overall re-arrest rate of released prisoners climbed from 62.5 perce\
nt in 1983 to 67.5 )Tj
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(that over two-thirds of the nation\222s prisoners are re-arrested within\
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(If you ever visit Ohio, you\222ll be in the Buckeye State, with a health\
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(convenience stores in the nation \(note to self: hot dogs are a breakfas\
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(For many years, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction \(O\
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(state prisons as well as the agency that provides post-release supervisi\
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(prisoner re-entry in Ohio, developing recommendations to move the depart\
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(communities. Ohio Penal Industries \(OPI\) is a division of ODCR and is \
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(If you\222ve heard anything about the Stark Truss family, you\222ve prob\
ably heard of Abner Yoder, the )Tj
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(owner and patriarch of the 41-year-old company. It was Abner\222s strong\
belief in the capability of )Tj
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(upon their release. Stark Truss VP of Operations Don Groom recalled Abne\
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(second chances. \223He believed that human beings weren\222t born to go \
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(give them a second chance to be successful in this life,\224 said Groom.\
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(In early 1996 Abner and Don teamed up with OPI to iron out the details o\
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k of came between them )Tj
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(and their ultimate goal. \223The original idea was to find a space in on\
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(facilities for the inmates to manufacture trusses,\224 Don remembered. O\
PI predicted a logistics )Tj
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(nightmare in getting lumber into the prison and were equally concerned a\
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(Plan B seemed far less complicated: create a design office for inmates t\
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(technicians. \223We weren\222t looking to give them busy work while they\
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(\223The industry has a chronic shortage of technicians, so setting up a \
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(Mike Lucas, OPI\222s Enterprise Resource Planning, recruits private busi\
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(challenges prisoners face during the re-entry process: \223[Felons] can \
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(drinking, and stop abusing drugs; but once they walk out that door, they\
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(He\222s right, and there is a 68 percent recidivism rate to prove it. OP\
I hopes to contribute to )Tj
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18 percent less likely to re-)Tj
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(offend than inmates who don\222t participate, said Robin Knab, Chief of \
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(Mike noted, \223Some people don\222t have any habits except bad ones. Un\
fortunately, environment )Tj
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(frequently overrides and people aren\222t given the opportunity to prove\
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(Based on available space and staffing, OPI placed the new Stark design o\
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(the department with someone who had a heart for helping people change th\
eir lives was the )Tj
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(next order of business. Where would Don find such a person? The timing c\
ouldn\222t have more )Tj
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(perfect for then Washington Court House, OH Plant Manager Sam Steward to\
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(a job change. \223Just around the time we started working with OPI, Sam \
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(Sam recalled, \223When Don asked me if I was interested, I accepted with\
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(of my background as a teacher, and he also knew my heart. I had a passio\
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(those who could use a hand.\224 With Sam on board to serve as the liaiso\
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(From the Stark Marion\222s infancy, it was known among inmates as a very\
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(great privilege for inmates to work in the Marion office. OPI does a gre\
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(cream of the prison crop into this program,\224 said Sam. \223The standa\
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(follow is very high,\224 Mike said, noting that the sole criteria for en\
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(participants must have a high school diploma or be working toward a GED.\
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(Getting Stark employees and customers on board with the idea was another\
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(\223My initial instinct was to be as quiet as possible about it. We thou\
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(more about it. I\222ve not had one customer complain about it, had nothi\
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(Rich Ackley of Stark\222s Sherman, TX plant spoke of his own reservation\
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(\223When I first heard of the program, I wondered why we wouldn\222t hir\
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(the same job? Why would we help an inmate?\224 Don experienced similar r\
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(employees who were reluctant to accept management\222s decision to work \
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(However, a great majority of his employees supported the program from th\
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(getting challenged quite a bit from employees who didn\222t support our \
program. From their )Tj
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(Before long, Rich also saw the value in such a program, \223I discovered\
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(Similar to Stark\222s goal, Bluegrass Truss Company aims to bridge the g\
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(In Lexington, Kentucky, a halfway house was admitting one more \223clien\
t.\224 On a Friday in )Tj
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(January 1999 at Dismas Charities, a halfway house, the recently released\
offender was taking his )Tj
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(first tentative steps back into society. This convicted drug offender wo\
uld travel a long and )Tj
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(difficult road to re-entry. He\222d have to start on the ladder\222s bot\
tom rung, proving his stability, )Tj
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(trustworthiness and ability to chose right instead of wrong with every s\
tep. An intake counselor )Tj
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(instructed him to find a job. With no transportation and very little mon\
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(I wondered out loud, \223Didn\222t you have any friends or family to hel\
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(buddies had written me while I was in prison and offered me jobs, but wh\
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(turned me away. Most people won\222t hire a felon,\224 he admitted. He i\
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(take a chance on an ex-con.)Tj
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(He ended up at Bluegrass Truss Company, which was a short walk away from\
the Dismas House. )Tj
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(Ray Johnson, Production Manager, said he knows Dismas well and offered h\
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(He will start on Monday, 7 a.m.)Tj
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(All baggage from his former life of crime and drugs aside, he will be on\
e of the most motivated, )Tj
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(optimistic and eager employees Bluegrass has seen in a long time. In fac\
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(General Manager of Bluegrass Truss Company, Mike Cobb.)Tj
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(Mike recalled his arrest: \223It was a day you never want to relive\227j\
ust like a scene out of a )Tj
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(movie,\224 he said. Mike was arrested by a SWAT team and charged with po\
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(the intent to sell. He talked about his addiction. \223The lure of that \
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(Out of jail on bond, Mike entered Beta, a drug rehabilitation program. \223\
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(Mike put himself in the position of an employer, \223If I would have had\
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(of prison, and all I had to go on was my past, I wouldn\222t trust me. I\
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(don\222t get to prison by singing too loud in the choir.\222\224)Tj
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(\223What allowed you to be so successful in life after incarceration,\224\
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(\223Structure and support. Some people don\222t have any support coming \
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(he explained. After serving a 46-month sentence for a felony drug convic\
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(Mike was ready to start anew. \223After a few months in prison, I realiz\
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(decided never to go back. The people who do well out of prison have to b\
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(Mr. Johnson is well aware of offenders\222 need for structure and suppor\
t. In fact, the Dismas/)Tj
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(Bluegrass relationship was built on this solid foundation. Former Dismas\
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(Bluegrass is that I trusted them to alert us right away if they saw some\
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(staff checks in with Bluegrass supervisors for a daily status report. Th\
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(Mike welcomed the structure, knowing it was his only chance to stay on t\
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(\223Being out on my own was very uncomfortable. It\222s a little like wa\
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(Even with structure and support, Mike\222s re-entry wasn\222t without st\
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(Dismas, he was officially on supervised release for four years with an a\
ppointed officer. \223It\222s )Tj
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(intrusive and embarrassing, but it\222s necessary in my opinion,\224 he \
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(reality of starting at the bottom of the pay scale at Bluegrass\227a har\
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(Mike finally feels at peace with his life, now that probation is behind \
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(taken off. \223I lived looking through the rearview mirror for those red\
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(years. I\222ve been fortunate to put it all behind me. I have the best j\
ob in the world, working with )Tj
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(Mr. Johnson and the rest of Bluegrass Truss staff.\224 Mike isn\222t the\
only success story to have risen )Tj
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(from the Dismas/Bluegrass partnership. There are many more who came to B\
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(It\222s important to recognize that programs like the ones I\222ve descr\
ibed above generally come at a )Tj
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entiful, the payback is )Tj
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(often well worth the investment. A quick Internet search on the keywords\
\223felon,\224 \223hire\224 and )Tj
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(\223prison\224 returns entire blogs \(web + log\) created by desperate e\
x-felons and their families asking )Tj
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(for advice on where to turn to find an employer who will hire them despi\
te their conviction, a )Tj
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(landlord who will not conduct a criminal background check, or encouragem\
ent to not let their )Tj
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seems as though the )Tj
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