County re-entry office offering paid training program
“This expansion to provide pay and career development support will be life-changing for our participants,” Shelby County Administrative Officer Harold Collins said. (The Daily Memphian file)
Formerly incarcerated people can learn job skills while earning money through a Shelby County Office of Re-Entry program called Focused.
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Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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