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Getting Out and Staying Out

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Executives Teach Inmates How to Be Employees By CAROL HYMOWITZ Wall Street Journal- March 17, 2008 Mark Goldsmith didn't expect to go to jail when he volunteered to be "principal for a day" at a New York City school. But after requesting a "tough school," he was assigned to Horizon Academy, a high school for inmates ages 18 to 24 at Rikers Island prison. Mr. Goldsmith, a former executive at Revlon and Shiseido, was ushered through locked gates to the prison's classrooms. Standing in front of his new class, he looked at the young students and saw in them signs of his own difficult youth. He had never committed a crime; but he told the students he thought he was dumb, and graduated near the bottom of his high-school class. He enrolled in college at night because his wife insisted, but he didn't think he could achieve anything...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 17, 2008 (boomark / email).