(The Center Square) – Eight state detention centers and three workforce development boards in the western part of the state will orchestrate usage of a $4 million federal grant helping fund the North Carolina Pathway to Reentry.

Taxpayer money supplied through the U.S. Department of Labor’s Pathway Home grant program is expected to help people leaving incarceration find employment. The Division of Workforce Solutions in the state Department of Commerce is the lead grant recipient and will work with Charlotte Works, Foothills Workforce Development Board and Western Piedmont Development Board.

Inmates getting assistance will have been housed in the Alexander Correctional Institution, Caldwell Correctional Center, Catawba Correctional Center, Foothills Correctional Institution, Gaston Corre

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