‘I PLEDGE TO YOU THAT I WILL CONTINUE TO PAY IT FORWARD FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE’ Once a person gets an education, it can never be taken away By Sarah Thompson, Penobscot Bay Pilot WARREN — Abdi Awad is an unlikely graduate of the University of Maine at Augusta’s class of 2016. He
YOUTH BASEBALL CLINIC, SUMMER LEAGUE PLANNED BY AMY FLOWERS UMBLE/THE FREE LANCE-STAR While many children across the country are abandoning baseball for other activities, a Fredericksburg group hopes to attract more youth to America’s pastime. The Sunshine Baseball League will kickoff its summer sessions with a free skills clinic Sunday. “We’re going to help them
TWENTY-NINE INMATES GRADUATE THROUGH THE HUDSON LINK PROGRAM Reported by Dominic Carter The Sunshine Lady Foundation provides major funding for the college degree program at Sing Sing.
BY RHONDA SIMMONS Doris Buffett wants to help local youth get a running start in life. That’s why the Fredericksburg philanthropist is sponsoring the Sunshine Baseball League this summer. Registration concludes June 10 and play runs from July 5 to Aug. 31. “I love to see kids learning to do team things,” said Doris Buffett.
BY FERLANDA FOX NIXON November 2, 2015 On Monday, Nov. 2, 2015, Rutgers University-Newark (RU-N) welcomed President Barack Obama on his latest stop on his national tour on criminal justice reform. With more than 600,000 individuals released from state and federal prisons each year, President Obama shared his sense of urgency to create a criminal
GLADYS P. TODD ACADEMY’S SUMMER BRIDGE PROGRAM PAVES HIGHER LEARNING PATH Posted: Saturday, July 18, 2015 12:00 am by Dawnthea Price / The Free Lance Star Germanna Community College President David A. Sam gazed out at an auditorium jam-packed with students, parents and educators. The 60 newly minted graduates of the Gladys P. Todd Academy’s
NY Times Sunday Review | OPINION By JOHN J. LENNON, APRIL 4, 2015 ATTICA, N.Y. — EVER wonder what prisoners do and talk about? Well, at the Attica Correctional Facility, we’re all tucked away in cellblocks watching TV. We watch a lot — all day, all night. Then we talk about what we’re watching. Conversation
BY AMY FLOWERS UMBLE/THE FREE LANCE-STAR The ochre-breasted bird perched on the chain-link fence and chirped, his song wafting across the front yard and through the open window to where Jerry Grimsley sat in a tweed recliner. “Is that a robin?” asked his sister, Vickie Chevrette. Grimsley shrugged. Last year, the harbinger of spring would
BY JEFF BRANSCOME/THE FREE LANCE-STAR While in prison, Julius Berger started taking classes, thanks to a program funded by Doris Buffett. Berger says that while he was in Coffeewood Correctional Center, Buffett was his first and only visitor at that prison. At first, Julius Berger didn’t panic when the judge sentenced him to five years
Privately funded college classes are starting to creep back into state prisons after being absent for nearly two decades. Supporters say they reduce the recidivism rate and can save money on re-incarceration. By Katherine Long Seattle Times higher education reporter Every week, they slide books through the metal detectors — novels by Virginia Woolf and
