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George Vogel started working with the State Employment Office and had an interest in criminal justice. He ultimately was assigned to work with people on probation, parole and in prison. George found that the people he worked with could not hold a job. George says, “There was another piece that was so obvious it would be hard to deny it … Just about every person had some history of drug and alcohol addiction in their past”. George says he became very interested in working with that segment of the population. At about the same time, the Berks County Prison Warden, George Wagner decided that the prison would play a major role and set up a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program within the prison walls. Having heard time and time again about individuals re-entering into the prison system due to drugs, this seemed like the next logical step. Years later that program and the programs that COCA offers have made a big difference. George says, “To me it means that if we can intervene on this part of the person’s l