A 'Scam'

Justin George: TAMPA — For men coming out of jail, the Carpenters' Workbench Training Program offered a new start.



Everyone participating would get two weeks of classroom training and two weeks of $10-an-hour on-the-job training. Then they would be placed in full-time construction jobs that paid just as well, if not better.



It was a big opportunity for men whose backgrounds make them hard to employ, even in a good economy.



"Other programs teach you about opportunity, but this program gives you opportunity," 49-year-old Perry Horton said on the first day.



An East Tampa nonprofit, the Corporation to Develop Communities, had a federal grant to run the program. Able Body Labor…