In a converted workshop in Southeast San Diego, the nonprofit Rise Up Industries teaches men who spent decades in prison the trade of machinist. The program combines paid apprenticeships with therapy and case management. The workshop fulfills orders for aerospace, medical equipment, auto parts, and fishing lures, among others. According to Rise Up, only 3% of graduates reoffend, compared to...

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