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    :: Friday, September 15, 2006 ::

    Some Inmates Getting Real World Job Training - CBS 13, CA
    Inmates can not only learn valuable skills like plumbing, carpentry and welding, but also be certified by organizations like the American Welders Society, and join apprenticeship programs with the Northern California Carpenters Union.

    Coming out of prison not with two hundred dollars and a bus ticket, but with a set of tools, a set of skills, a partnership with unions to get real jobs,' says James Tilton with the Department of Corrections.
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