A LOCAL historian has published a book thirty years in the making about Inverclyde during World War 2. Vincent Gillen s labour of love documents the untold story of brave actions and the voices of the people who lived through the war. The
Greenock Telegraph has also played its part in the new title, which includes interviews with those who survived and features the legacies of others who sadly didn t come home. Author Vincent used contemporary reports from the
Telegraph and Port Glasgow Express, among other published articles, as well as interviews and personal reminiscences. Vincent, 58, said: This is an attempt to pull together almost thirty years of research into World War 2 and how it affected Greenock, Gourock and Port Glasgow and the villages of Kilmacolm, Inverkip and Wemyss Bay and the people who live there.
A high school student needed help with tuition, so an unlikely group stepped up: prison inmates
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By Alexa Rodriguez
Jan 8, 2021
California inmates make as little as eight cents an hour sweeping floors, building furniture, and clerking. If they have an industry job, they can do better, making $1 an hour, or around $100 per month, per CBS News. That s why it took three long years for a group of nearly 800 inmates at Soledad State Prison to amass $32,000–that s $24,000 of their own money, plus an $8,000 donation from outside the prison which they swiftly gave away.
Jason Bryant, now a former inmate, had been taking part in a prison book club in 2016 with students from Palma School, a private all-boys Catholic school in Salinas, Calif., when they read Ernest Gordon s
Friday, January 8th 2021, 11:41 am
By: CBS News
SALINAS, California -
For the past seven years, students from the Palma School in Salinas, California have been part of a book club at an unlikely place Soledad State Prison.
Mia Mirassou and Jim Micheletti founded the book club called Exercises In Empathy. Micheletti told CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca that students would go into the prison afraid but would leave with a new perspective on the incarcerated men. They go in thinking monster … and they come out thinking a man. A human being … they ve done bad things, but there are no throwaway people here, Micheletti said.
By Alexa Rodriguez
Jan 8, 2021
California inmates make as little as eight cents an hour sweeping floors, building furniture, and clerking. If they have an industry job, they can do better, making $1 an hour, or around $100 per month, per CBS News. That s why it took three long years for a group of nearly 800 inmates at Soledad State Prison to amass $32,000–that s $24,000 of their own money, plus an $8,000 donation from outside the prison which they swiftly gave away.
Jason Bryant, now a former inmate, had been taking part in a prison book club in 2016 with students from Palma School, a private all-boys Catholic school in Salinas, Calif., when they read Ernest Gordon s
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