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| Detroit-Area Inmates Offer Ideas For A Safer City |
| By wltx.com - Bill Laitner/Detroit Free Press |
| Published: 06/06/2012 |
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Detroit, MI -- At Ryan Correctional Facility in Detroit, hardened prison inmates spoke from the heart about their hopes for a safer city and their regrets for turning to crime. Seated around the room of white-painted cinder blocks Tuesday were social workers, ministers, crime victims, University of Michigan sociologists, Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. and Mayor Dave Bing. "We need to show the youth that this uniform is not a badge of honor," said inmate Darryl Woods. "It's a badge of shame. I want every man wearing this blue and orange to stand up because we apologize for the pain we have caused," Woods said. Two dozen inmates in the forum stood around the room, ramrod straight, and the audience applauded. Michigan corrections officials said it was the first time a forum on preventing community violence was held inside prison walls. Woods, 40 -- in prison for more than half of his life for aiding in a homicide -- was one of many who spoke at the event, sponsored by the Detroit Free Press as a follow-up to the paper's award-winning print stories and video last year on Detroit's epidemic of homicide, called "Living With Murder." Read More. |
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