Job fair provides services, job options to Indy ex-offenders

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Correction houses about 25,000 inmates.

Every year, approximately 10,000 of them leave prison and return home. About 2,000 come back to Marion County every year.

With a reported IDOC recidivism rate of nearly 40%, jobs and access to services can play a key role in breaking the revolving door cycle that returns to many ex-offenders back to prison…

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