suffolk county jail is a world away from the colleges or ivy league university located just miles away. but once a week those two worlds intersect when students from harvard university and boston college come to the jail to help inmates earn their geds. for them to come in and do it for us as little convicts, i should say, that s a good thing. looking out for us. showing us, you know, there is a world out there. there is help out there. people want to help you. girard cohen has been teamed with alexander, a harvard sophomore. it s one of these things, you can do the answers in your head probably, just to be sure, because we all make mistakes and try do it in our head, just write it out. it will take five extra seconds, but it s totally worth it if you re taking a test, each answer matters for the final score. people have a wall about what how they think of prisoners and what this whole community is like and it s just not true. if you work with someone
thing or the wrong thing and most of us here, we picked the wrong thing. it s as simple as that. in my neighborhood right. money s basically nil. you ve got so much unemployment, and we are not acquiring the funds to meet the demand. so how do we find patience? okay. patience right here then, we discuss here every week that you just can t jump out and say you re going to get a job. absolutely. you have to have the tools in place. absolutely. this is the opportunity for you to build up some discipline knowing that you re going to do certain things every day. so you re building a foundation that s going to allow you to make the right decisions when you get out of here. me personally, i think the program s helped. every time i ve come here, the program has helped me. i have seen brothers graduate and get geds here. i ve seen brothers go to task programs and work release programs and stay out of trouble. it works. it works. it may not work for everybody, but it does w
doing time in boston s suffolk county jail is a world away from the colleges or ivy league university located just miles away. but once a week those two worlds intersect when students from harvard university and boston college come to the jail to help inmates earn their geds. for them to come in and do it for us as little convicts, i should say, that s a good thing. looking out for us. showing us, you know, there is a world out there. there is help out there. people want to help you. girard cohen has been teamed with alexander, a harvard sophomore. it s one of these things, you can do the answers in your head probably, just to be sure, because we all make mistakes and try do it in our head, just write it out. it will take five extra seconds, but it s totally worth it. if you re taking a test, each
due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. doing time in boston s suffolk county jail is a world away from the colleges or ivy league university located just miles away. but once a week, those two worlds intersect when students from harvard university and boston college come to the jail to help inmates earn their geds. for them to come in and do it for us, us little convicts, i should say, that s a good thing. looking out for us. showing us, you know what i m saying, there is a world out there. there is help out there. people want to help you. girard cohen has been teamed with alexander, a harvard sophomore. it s one of these things, you can do the answers in your head probably, but just to be sure, because we all make mistakes and try do it in our head, just
patience right here then, we discuss here every week that you just can t jump out and say you re going to get a job. absolutely. you have to have the tools in place. absolutely. this is the opportunity for you to build up some discipline knowing that you re going to do certain things every day. so you re building a foundation that s going to allow you to make the right decisions when you get out of here. me personally, i think the program s helped. every time i ve come here, the program has helped me. i have seen brothers graduate and get geds here. i ve seen brothers go to task programs and work release programs and stay out of trouble. it works. it works. it may not work for everybody, but it does work and my belief is that if it helps 1 or 2 out of 100, then that s still helping society. because that one or two gonna help somebody else that s gonna help somebody else. next on lockup fix it in the tray. rehabilitation through shock incarceration. ready, ready, r