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California prison activists protest cuts to rehab programs
By scpr.org
Published: 12/17/2009

Only a small fraction of California’s 150,000 inmates are able to attend classes inside prison.

Teacher Cindie Fonseca says those inmates that do benefit.

"Inmates have to have some kind of hope that they can change and that’s what education gives them."

For 16 years, Cindie Fonseca has taught printing classes at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco. She says she knows of dozens of inmates who’ve applied the skills they’ve learned in prison to stay clean once they’re outside.

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