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| Students go to prisons for Spring Break Outreach |
| By Andrew Zaleski - Loyola Greyhound |
| Published: 03/30/2009 |
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Driving down Baltimore's stretch of I-83 into the downtown area, just before the highway dumps into President Street on the way to the Inner Harbor, you'd be hard pressed to miss the dark, looming building that towers over the road on the left, pockmarked with tiny, square windows and draped in a banner threatening any Baltimoreans to pick a room should they decide to pick up a gun. For most Loyola students, Baltimore's Central Booking and Intake Center becomes just another landmark of a city skyline on the ride down to The Cheesecake Factory or Urban Outfitters. But for the participants of Spring Break Outreach: Baltimore, learning about the Central Booking facility was just one of a week-long set of experiences that will forever change how those Loyola students view their college city. "We were all thinking, 'the Loyola bubble had burst,'" said Rob Guzman, '10. "There's so much to Baltimore that we just don't know about. [Central Booking] just isn't another building now." Loyola College's SBO program, run through the Center for Community Service and Justice, is an annual program that allows for small groups of students, faculty and staff to travel during their Spring Break to a variety of underprivileged towns and cities across America, as close as Baltimore and as far away as Gulfport, Mississippi. At all these locations, Loyola volunteers experience life in communities that are marginalized in some way while participating in direct service and educational events designed to teach SBO participants about different community issues, which range, depending on location, from rural poverty, to developmental disabilities, to child healthcare. The Baltimore group took an in-depth look at Maryland's prison culture and prison recidivism, or the rate at which people return to prison, by visiting prisons in Baltimore City, Hagerstown and Jessup, and working with local prisoner re-entry and employment programs. "A lot of things now make more sense," said Margarita Dubocq, the Baltimore site leader and assistant director of poverty concerns and faith connections at CCSJ. "Everyone in the prison system is underprivileged and materially poor, and being in prison tangles with many social justice issues. Finding the humanity in the inmates is crucial." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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