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New York Times: Out of Jail, and Into a Job
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About two months ago, Angel Padilla was walking near Madison Square Garden when the driver of a linen service truck started shouting and waving at him. “Hey Angel! C.E.O.!” the driver said. “Look at me — I’m driving now!”
Padilla was surprised. He knew the driver — he was a guy named Jose whom he’d supervised six months before. Padilla works at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, but his real employer is the , (C.E.O.) a New York organization that specializes in helping ex-offenders find and keep jobs. Padilla supervises a crew of from five to seven parolees as they do temporary, minimum-wage janitorial jobs at John Jay.
Jose had stuck in his mind. “He was terrible. This guy had major attitude,” Padilla said. “ His thing was, ‘Oh, I ain’t making enough money to be doing all this work.” Every day Padilla evaluates the men in his crew — are they on time? Appropriately dressed? Do they take direction? Make a serious effort? Work well with others? He gives them marks ranging from a low of one to a high of five. “I gave him all zeros on his first day,” Padilla said. “We don’t have zeros, but I wrote them in.”
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