As a matter of fact, all the professions with a need for people should be looking to the prison systems to find people looking for opportunity and a change in their future path.
I've heard of all kinds of stuff inmates do to pass the time and earn a few dollars, but, none really lead to gainful employment after they leave jail or prison. I suppose caring for animals can lead to new feelings of nurturing and patience and that is important, but, it isn't going to pay the bills and they are right back on the losing side of life.
Inmates should be leaving prison with a clear understanding and a certificate showing they are ready for work that will provide them a livelihood and not just a return to 'the hood.'
I can think of several professions like this, including obsure, past professions like becoming a shoe cobbler. Where can people go to have their wing-tips resoled? Lost professions are not a joke. It is a profound loss to society of very basic understandings of it's beginnings and innovation. Honestly, now. Where is there a good shoe cobbler in Manhattan? Or a real barber with a newsstand out front. If Americans are looking for the real country, they need to look harder.
Hint: NewsPAPERS can't be hacked by Russians.
March 6, 2018
By Quoctrung Bui and Roger Kisby
...Nearly two-thirds of bricklaying contractors (click here) say they are struggling to find workers, according to a survey by the National Association of Home Builders . And it can take three to four years before a person with no experience can become a journeyman bricklayer.
In addition, productivity — how much brick wall a laborer can complete in an hour of work — isn’t much better than it was two decades ago. Bricklaying’s most important tools — a trowel, a bucket, string and a wheelbarrow — haven’t changed much over centuries.
These factors would seem to put the trade at risk of a robot takeover....
