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Nehemiah Manufacturing started in 2009 with a mission: build brands, create jobs and change lives. Roughly 150 of the 200 employees working for the company are considered 'second chance' workers.

Comer is approaching his one-year anniversary at Nehemiah Manufacturing in Cincinnati, after serving more than 33 years in prison for aggravated robbery and murder. "Throughout the whole incarceration, one of the first things that was most important to me, I had to take an inventory of self … and identify the issues that sent me to prison and allowed me to make the decisions that led me to commit a crime," Comer said. "I knew I made a mistake. And so, when I went to prison, I tried to redeem ...