Thaddeus Watts Has “Been Through the Storm.” Workforce Training Helped Him Weather It.

While incarcerated at Ellsworth Correctional Facility, Thaddeus Watts participated in the Private Industry program, which provides employment opportunities at more than two dozen private companies for people serving their sentences at Kansas’s eight correctional facilities. Thaddeus received on-the-job training at MAICO Industries during his incarceration and accepted a position with the company following his release in 2018. Hear why Thaddeus considers himself a success story and how this type of training could help others inside Kansas prisons.