Charlotte West at The Seattle Times reports on Brittany Wright, who - thanks to a program that trains incarcerated Women in well-paying Building Trades jobs, is now developing the skills she needed to start a job at a Seattle Construction and Engineering Firm.  Now, six months later, she’s earning $31 per hour working on a Light Rail Expansion Project.  A year after being released from prison, three out of four people are unemployed - but the day after Wright, 30, got out in June, she was reporting to work.  “It’s important that we get the Women working right away when they get out,” said Heather Kurtenbach, a formerly incarcerated Business Agent at Ironworkers Local 86 in Tukwila.  Research shows that finding employment soon after release is an essential factor in reducing recidivism. 

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