The Carpenters’ Union local in Sudbury, Ont. has tapped into a source for recruiting labour that has gone unnoticed by other training organizations through the deepening trades shortage crisis: the prison system. Local 2486 established its Social Reintegration Program, a pre-apprenticeship initiative for prison inmates, this summer, instructing a couple of dozen men behind bars … Continue reading Inmate apprenticeship program ‘a chance for a whole new life’