Another thing I heard was that access to work release is one of the best indicators of success when someone is released later.
However, at Pê Sâkâstêw—not when I was with you folks—they were saying that the amount of time between when an employer says they'll hire someone and the offender's paperwork working its way up the chain and back down can be so long that it means that the job is actually lost.
Have you encountered that as well?