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Resolved: Inmates Make Tough Debaters

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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NY- Big City Resolved: Inmates Make Tough Debaters By SUSAN DOMINUS NY Times Published: May 7, 2010 The two debate teams sat across a large room on Thursday night waiting for their face-off to begin. On one side were the visitors, four undergraduates at the New School, and their equally young coach poring over documents and comparing last-minute notes. Across the room the home team, four men in their 30s and 40s, leaned back in their seats, pictures of poise, their neatly arranged index cards at the ready but untouched. The students from the Eugene Lang College of the New School were nervous because their team had lost here the previous year; in fact, the opposing team was undefeated in its two-year history, besting opponents like St. John?s University and New York Law School...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 08, 2010 (boomark / email).

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