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Still learning, even though they're incarcerated at Ventura Youth Correctional Facility
By vcstar.com - Jean Cowden Moore
Published: 04/11/2013

Like many young men his age, Daniel Ayala has high hopes for his future. Ayala, a college student with a brilliant smile, wants to be a history teacher.

There’s just one thing holding him back. Right now, Ayala is incarcerated.

But for the past six weeks, Ayala, 18, has been working with a group of nine students at CSU Channel Islands who come to the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility in Camarillo on Thursday and Friday evenings to tutor, teach and mentor about a dozen young men there. They’re tutoring the young men in such basic skills as taking notes and writing a short essay — and giving them advice on college life.

The experience has encouraged Ayala to continue with his college education, he said.

“I like to learn about history — that’s where we come from,” Ayala said, sitting in a classroom on a recent evening, going over an essay with a tutor. “And I like teaching other people. Why learn something and keep it to yourself?”

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