CTA touts ‘Second Chance’ program for ex-offenders, but few end up with permanent jobs

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CTA touts ‘Second Chance’ program for ex-offenders, but few end up with permanent jobs

The CTA’s Kimball Brown Line L station yard is where dozens of workers in the transit agency’s “Second Chance” program clean train cars overnight in low-paying internships that many hope will lead to permanent, full-time jobs. But that doesn’t usually happen.Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere / Sun-Times Celebrating the “Second Chance” program he helped create, CTA President Dorval Carter lauded it recently as a way to give “individuals with barriers to e…