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| Prison program celebrates 13 years of educating inmates |
| By poughkeepsiejournal.com |
| Published: 04/06/2009 |
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The New York Department of Corrections commissioner applauded the work of the Vassar College’s Green Haven Prison Program Saturday, giving it credit for “pushing the envelope.” “It’s the willingness on both sides to get involved, and the fact that they’ve created a viable program,” Commissioner Brian Fischer said regarding what impressed him the most about the program. Fischer was the keynote speaker at a conference on prison policy and reform, which served as the program’s 10th annual reunion, as well as a celebration of its 13th anniversary. “The key to treatment is socialization; it’s everything we do to get people to know themselves and each other,” he told a group of students, professors and formerly incarcerated men and women during the conference held at Vassar on Saturday. The full day of programming included a slideshow of Vassar’s similar partnership with Otisville Correctional Facility in Orange County, a prison art exhibit, a panel of formerly incarcerated men and women, and workshops on topics that included Women in Prison, Community Reentry Issues, and Developing a College In Prison Program at Vassar College. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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