{"id":170198,"date":"2025-06-09T12:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170198\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:12:16","slug":"ex-prisoners-welcome-second-chance-at-jobs-fair-in-lewes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170198\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-prisoners welcome second chance at jobs fair in Lewes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Trought said: &#8220;When I was in prison, I had a lot of time to think about my actions and the repercussions were catastrophic for my family, friends and society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the support he received from a previous Balfour Beatty jobs fair helped him turn his life around and secured a job with Triplex. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John Burton was previously jailed for drug importation, tax evasion and money laundering, and released in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Crime doesn&#8217;t pay, you will get caught. While I was in prison I said to myself I must get rehabilitated because I wanted to support myself and my family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has a company, Inside Connections, which is now managed by his children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Burton said his family had never been involved in crime and he was determined to turn his life around for them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Trought said: &#8220;When I was in prison, I had a lot of time to think about my&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,897,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-170198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114653347481747589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}