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.
going to hurt them in 2014. it s going to hurt them in 2016. because you don t know who your next door neighbor might be who happened to receive benefits from the department of labor. that s not something that s public knowledge. those people go into the voting booth. when their families go into the voting booth, they re going to remember who voted to deny them benefits they worked so hard for. if they were truly interested in gaining full employment in this country, they d be investing in job training, investing in young people to get their geds. they would be investing in jobs out there that for the people who want to stay in the workforce a bit longer, they d be investing in meaningful wages and jobs for real people. in fact, they tossed the president s jobs act right back at him and didn t even let it up for a vote. well, you said may hurt them politically. i m more concerned about the people that it will hurt on saturday and going forward. that s who i m concerned about being hu
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, ready? eat.
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, ready? eat. [ male announcer ] just
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.