Felons, homeless fill jobs left after immigration raid at plant - Stillmore, Georgia

I think it is great that these people are getting jobs, it would be interesting to see how long they last at this type of work and it still isn’t enough to fill all the jobs at the plant. This would make an interesting follow up story.

“A south Georgia poultry plant is busing in felons on probation and homeless men to fill jobs left empty when federal immigration agents arrested illegal Mexican immigrants in raids two months ago.

Each day, about 40 convicted felons from the Macon Diversion Center are bused in to work at the Crider Poultry plant in Stillmore. Sixteen men from the Garden City Rescue Mission in Augusta have worked in the plant, and the mission is looking to send more.

Crider President David Purtle said that’s just a drop in the bucket for a plant operating at 450 employees, less than half of the 1,000 workers there before the raid.”

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