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The Pulaski County jail will implement a new educational re-entry program to help inmates learn a trade, find a job and get back on their feet.

The Pulaski County jail will implement a new educational re-entry program to help inmates learn a trade, find a job and get back on their feet.

Go be with your father, you do it. it's worth it. >> we're working with him. i know that he wants a program. >> deputy mattson, also with the host team, has been trying to help taylor for quite some time. >> we called four or five different locations, and they didn't have a bed for him. >> but his situation is complicated. in order to keep his mental health symptoms at bay, the voices in his head, the hallucinations, taylor has been self-medicating with the lethal street drug fentanyl, and now he's addicted. >> it's easy to stop, but hard to stay stopped. >> he wants to go to a substance abuse...

Stay stopped. >> he wants to go to a substance abuse program. >> yes, that's your big first step. if we can get that done, you'll go? >> yeah. >> all right. >> this is a big deal for taylor. but he'll only leave if he can be placed in a drug treatment program. >> we'll figure it out. you got the best in the best right there. >> deputy matson gets to work. >> we've been calling all last week and all been no, no, no, no so we got tired of the nos. >> taylor has agreed to leave the encampment but there is so much complexity involved. they can't get a bed for him in orange county where he's from u...

How Lehigh Valley-area lawmakers voted last week in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.