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Prison bars didn't limit these grads
By recordonline.com- Leonard Sparks
Published: 06/19/2014

WOODBOURNE — Tyrone Rudolph was an "aggressive, angry and selfish" 19-year-old in 1992 when he went to sleep his first night in prison.

On Wednesday morning he woke around 4:30 a.m. as someone much bigger: a college graduate, a man convinced service ennobles the human family and a representative of the belief that inmates can be part of that family.

"You can only reflect so long on what you did wrong before you want to do right," Rudolph said.

He was one of 11 Sullivan Correctional Facility inmates greeted by applause and whistles when they marched into the prison's gymnasium to receive two-year degrees from SUNY Sullivan.

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