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| Barton celebrates inmate success at Ellsworth Correctional Facility |
| By gbtribune.com |
| Published: 10/07/2016 |
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Desmund Cantu has been incarcerated for four years, since he was 19 years old, and he, like 97 percent of all inmates in the US, will be released. Cantu has less than two years left in his sentence. Statistics would say he will have a one in three chance of landing back in prison, a cycle known as recidivism in which inmates return to the only lifestyles, habits and behaviors they’ve ever known. Cantu, however, resolves to defy statistics. Thanks to education opportunities through Barton Community College, he will have a whole new set of skills and expectations when 2018 arrives and he tastes freedom once more. Barton, Ellsworth Correctional Facility and the Kansas Department of Corrections highlighted the success of almost 130 inmates who have taken the initiative to pursue their educations while incarcerated at the 12th Annual Learning Celebration on Tuesday evening at Ellsworth Correctional Facility. Cantu received his high school diploma through the General Education Development (GED) test, a certificate in welding and a WORKready! Certificate, which is a nationally recognized certification indicating an individual’s competence and readiness to enter the workforce. Read More. |
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