{"id":382764,"date":"2026-07-22T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382764\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:16:09","slug":"el-paso-county-sheriffs-office-launches-new-program-to-support-re-entry-for-incarcerated-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382764\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office launches new program to support re-entry for incarcerated individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; The El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office (EPSO) has created a new program for incarcerated individuals by providing industry-recognized construction flagging certification designed to prepare participants for \u201cmeaningful\u201d employment upon their release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">EPSO said the program aims to equip participants with valuable skills in traffic control procedures, workplace safety and construction flagging operations through practical, hands-on training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Wednesday, five incarcerated individuals became the first graduates of the program, successfully earning their CDOT construction flagging certification, EPSO said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOne of our goals is to provide citizens in our custody with opportunities to prepare them for a successful future,\u201d said El Paso County Sheriff Joseph Roybal.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KKTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; The El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office (EPSO) has created a new program&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-382764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}