NYC ex-cons slice and dice their way through new culinary training program dished up to keep them on the ‘straight and narrow’

In this kitchen, justice is served – and finely chopped.

Nearly a dozen ex-cons graduated Monday from the city’s Department of Probation’s inaugural culinary-skills program, part of a range of new classes offered to parolees to try to bolster employment and slash recidivism rates.

“This is my yellow brick road,” said newly minted class graduate and parolee Angel Rivera, 52, of Brooklyn. “This is going to open up doors for me.”…

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