Face to Face: Mock Job Interviews Inside a Colorado Prison with Colorado Gov. Polis

As a successful entrepreneur and investor, Jared Polis knows what it’s like to conduct job interviews and receive business pitches. As a first-term governor of Colorado, he participated in both of those familiar activities in an unfamiliar place: a state prison.
As part of the Face to Face initiative, Gov. Polis visited the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in Ordway, CO. His visit centered on learning about the ways some people supervised there are preparing to enter the workforce once they’re released, and participating in the program himself.
Gov. Polis listened while incarcerated men shared their entrepreneurial ideas in a style mimicking Shark Tank and participated in a round-robin set of mock job interviews with the aspiring job hunters.