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| Dealing with recidivism from the inside out |
| By capecodonline.com |
| Published: 04/16/2013 |
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MASSACHUSETTS - The furthest thought from Amelie Scheltema's mind was to go to prison. But the seed already had been planted. Scheltema went to visit friends in Australia. They asked the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution biologist if America was as violent as they had read in the media. "I told them yes, unfortunately," she recalled. When she returned to the United States, two Quaker friends suggested she would be a perfect candidate to get involved with the Alternatives to Violence Project at the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater. And through her longtime involvement with the conflict resolution program, which trains inmates in the principles of nonviolence, Scheltema got a chance to see, up close and personal, what life was like inside prison. "It was one of the most enlightening experiences of my life. At first when I went in, I thought nobody belonged there. I quickly saw that, no, they were there for a reason," she told me. Read More. |
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