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Barbara Margolis, Prisoners? Advocate, Dies at 79

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Barbara Margolis, Prisoners? Advocate, Dies at 79 By MARGALIT FOX Published: July 12, 2009 NY Times Barbara Margolis, a longtime volunteer in New York City jails who 20 years ago founded Fresh Start, a widely praised training program that brings the city?s finest chefs to Rikers Island to train inmates in culinary arts, and then helps those inmates find restaurant jobs upon release, died on July 3 in Manhattan. She was 79 and had homes on the Upper East Side; in Quogue, N.Y.; and in Tourrettes-sur-Loup, in the south of France. Mrs. Margolis?s death, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, was from complications of cancer, her daughter, Nancy Margolis King, said. Long active in civic affairs, Mrs. Margolis was the New York City commissioner of protocol under Mayor Edward I...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).