Similar program in Oakland, California http://plantingjustice.org/

Yet another. West coast I think. http://www.daveskillerbread.com/secondchances/

So that's what they mean by "killer" bread. On a more serious note, of the 12 ex-felons on their website, 2 are black males and 5 are women. This is highly nonrepresentative of prison demographics.

It seems likely that, for the same reasons normal companies prefer not to hire ex-felons at all, Dave's Killer Bread might prefer to hire ex-felons who are slanted toward the nonviolent end of the ex-felon pool.

Wow! I already love the bread, but now I love the company too.

You should read the story about the founder. It is an amazing company, and product! I wish more companies would give some felons a second chance. Not everybody is "bread" (hah!) to be a felon. Not everybody is hopeless, but as a society we sure stack the deck against them by denying them decent employment after they've paid their debt to society. Companies like DKB are much needed. They've changed a lot of lives for the better, and I'm sure have kept more than a few criminals from returning to their former "profession" by giving them skills and paying a living wage. http://www.daveskillerbread.com/our-history/#our-history-1

To be fair, they probably learned it from Detroit. It's just a lot less formal in Detroit than the program they put together in Atlanta. And it's done more to put food on the table by necessity in Detroit rather than as a sort of public works kind of thing.