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| Hope and education coincide as students go to prison — to tutor |
| By theridernews.com- Gianluca D’Elia |
| Published: 10/14/2015 |
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Since last spring, a group of Rider students has been working hard to create a chapter of the Petey Greene Program, a Princeton-based organization that provides individualized tutoring at minimum-security prisons. Upon establishment of the program, Rider would be the 17th school in the nation to start a chapter of Petey Greene. In the midst of planning information sessions, recruiting members and coming up with a group motto, the executive board of the university’s Petey Greene chapter has already been interacting with inmates at New Jersey correctional facilities. “Education is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Rider’s Petey Greene president, junior psychology major Asia Marché. “When people work with us, we want them to connect. We’re going to get to the root of the issue, and they’ll take something away — not just how to do a math problem or read some words. They will want to learn.” Resources are often scarce in the Department of Corrections. Prisons lack therapists and counselors, and addiction treatment programs come and go. Petey Greene focuses on educational therapy to provide inmates with skills that will help them after their release. However, educational therapy can be beneficial in more ways than one. Read More. |
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