A new bill just introduced to the Indiana State Senate is looking to give felons job training while they’re in prison. At the very top of the list of jobs deemed acceptable for the recently incarcerated? Truck driving.

Indiana Senate bill 173 allows for currently incarcerated felons who qualify to get free “specialized vocational training” for several jobs including truck driving, manufacturing, plumbing, construction, and diesel technology.





To qualify, inmates have to be in a minimum security location and “eligible to work outside a perimeter fence.” The bill goes on to stipulate other criteria including that inmates must have less than two years left in their sentence and that they must not be a “security risk,” but interestingly, a proposed amendment to the bill would remove that additional criteria.

Many prisons across the nation already provide vocational training for inmates and supporters of the programs claim that such initiatives are essential for helping former inmates reintegrate into society in a productive way and for helping them avoid returning to prison.

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