This article follows a man who seems to fall in line with many of the statistics following prison inmates and recidivism. He came from a low income area in which crime was all around him and naturally got caught up in it himself. He also had little to no education. That is until he went to prison. He served 25 years, received his GED, associates and later bachelors while serving. Never went back to prison and now has a PHD and is a teacher himself. This provides a nice human example, a face behind the statistics.
I am empathetic about your article Prison Education Saved My Life and Stopped an Environmental Cycle of Incarceration because my partner works as a correctional officer.
Though inmates are not in this specific jail long, because it’s where they await their trials he does have lots of time to talk and listen to the inmates and hear their struggles and events that led up to their incarceration. Most of the time it is the environment and not the person themselves that has set them on the wrong path. Hopefully through my career and his we can both help students or inmates get on the right path.
Thank you for your writing and for sharing this piece.
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