INDIANAPOLIS — RecycleForce, a company that recycles electronic waste, is creating a new peer leadership program to help their employees who are returning home from being incarcerated.
“Instead of throwing all these individuals away in the prison system, we are beginning to go how can we divert them before it happens? For those that have been locked up, how can we bring them home? We need the labor and it’s the moral thing to do for our community and our people,” RecycleForce President Gregg Keesling said.
RecycleForce’s workforce development program focuses on helping ex-offenders break down the barriers to employment by providing transitional jobs for up to six months, as well as services designed to get their lives back on track. They also help those experiencing homelessness and people who committed crimes as juveniles.
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