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| FL DOC Focus On GEDs Proves Success |
| By floridatoday.com |
| Published: 10/19/2010 |
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SHARPES — "Pomp & Circumstance" blared through tinny speakers, mothers and grandmothers wiped away tears, and students fidgeted through short speeches and words of encouragement before receiving their certificates. Then, the new graduates watched as their loved ones went away, leaving the graduates in their day-to-day routine: prison. Fifty inmates housed at Brevard Correctional Institution received their GEDs or vocational certificates recently during a short but poignant ceremony in the prison's visiting room. "I didn't see myself as someone who would graduate when I first got here," said Charlie Griggs, 18, of Melbourne, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for burglary. "But one day I was sitting on my bed and I realized that I don't want to be in this place." Read More. |
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