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. each answer matters for the final score.
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.
caucus. how contentious is to to try to make something happen. or can we hope there can be some bipartisan unity around some of the issues that americans really care about? well, first of all, the unemployment insurance is going to run out. the deal made at the end of last year is going to run out at the end of february. so we absolutely have to come to an agreement. now it s interesting you asked about the tea party because, you know, the republicans are in their caucus this weekend. and it s going to be interesting to see if whether or not the tea party members continue to have a bloc within the republican party. but to talk about a party that hasn t a clue about the unemployed, you know, 84% of people that are unemployed have at least a high school diploma. and one of the requirements that they want to put on an individual seeking unemployment is that they go and receive courses for geds. what we re really trying to do, in my office and in congress, is to put the true face of the
about a pipeline. this is not about geds, this is not about drugs. this is not about families trying to make ends meet, and if we take these policies away for them right now, it s bad for them, and as the numbers show it s bad for the overall economy. now, congressman payne, you know, this gop proposal is really chock full of non-starters for democrats. remember, the gop house won t even take a bill, they won t even allow a vote on a millionaire s surtax, but they think that democrats will back this, delays environmental regulation, fast tracks on the oil pipeline, cuts unemployment benefits, repeal health care funding, freezes federal worker s pay so they are saying no, you can t vote on a millionaire surtax, but you guys vote on these things that are basic to the principles that democrats have represented. they absolutely really want
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 is in the tray. rehabilitation through shock incarceration. ready, ready, ready? eat. [ male announcer ] sometimes, a hint is all the wrapping a gift