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| A new game plan |
| By dailyindependent.com - Tim Preston |
| Published: 05/28/2013 |
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KENTUCKY - CATLETTSBURG — Inmates at the Boyd County Detention Center who have a conviction to improve their own lives will play chess instead of poker as part of a new program aimed at changing attitudes and lives, according to Deputy Tony Daniels. “If they play a game, it’s going to have to be chess. Chess teaches that you have to think about your next move ... and that’s something some of these guys need to work on,” Daniels said last week, explaining that many of those in the jail are guilty of using poor judgment based on the only information they’ve ever known. “We get a lot of guys that just make bad decisions,” Daniels said, explaining the motivations that resulted in the new Route 1-80 program under development at the jail, which will incorporate three different programs approved by the Department of Corrections aimed at helping offenders alter the thinking that resulted in their offenses. One program is designed to “retrain the mind with morals and values more typical of society,” he said. “A lot of these guys grew up with a different standard of normal than most people grew up with.” Read More. |
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