Each year, approximately 19,000 inmates return home from DOC incarceration.
Each year, state prisons in Pennsylvania coordinate career and reentry fairs for inmates to help them prepare for their return home.
One such career and reentry fair was held at SCI Waymart on March 27, kicking of the DOC's reentry fair season where each prison holds a similar event through the end of 2019.
Waymart's event allowed representatives from local businesses, colleges and universities, financial establishments, local and state agencies and many others to spend the day talking to inmates who soon will be released from prison.
SCI Waymart Principal Michelle Lipko said the event is intended to expose inmates to the many reentry options that are available to them.
More than 100 inmates participated, some who've already earned certificates in areas such as business and technology, culinary, carpentry; and some who will earn their cosmetology licenses prior to release from prison.
The career and reentry fair is a way to provide inmates with a wealth of information that they can use to set themselves up for a path to success upon release from prison.
You can read more about the career and reentry fair in the Wayne Independent, a newspaper local to SCI Waymart.