KAILUA, Hawaii -- A few Windward Oahu businesses on Tuesday attended a job fair at the Women's Community Correctional Center to help inmates learn about job possibilities once they are released.

Daniella Hwang is job hunting, but it is not easy for her or more than 200 women inmates at the Women's Community Correctional Center in Kailua. So, a job fair came to them.

"Because I have opportunities with all different kinds of jobs, and I can ask them how much pay and what can I do, ask around. So it helps me a lot," Hwang said.

The inmates who attended the job fair have a year or two left in their terms. Some already have limited release into the community.

The fair did more than show inmates how to fill out an application. It also helped them overcome a life many of them want to leave behind.

"A self-felt stigma knowing that they have been incarcerated, and whether or not a business is going to hire them or even want to talk to them," WCCC Warden Mark Patterson said.

A few businesses attended, including: Hawaii Job Corps Center, KFC Hawaii, Mary Kay Cosmetics and Avon.

"We want to just work with them, try and give them that chance to have career, and have their own -- something that empowers them to succeed in life," said Melissa Bradley of Avon.

That meant a lot to the women.

"I mean they're actually taking their time out to come in and care, you know? It's like they actually care about us," inmate Stacy Lopez said.