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Corporate executives helping with reentry in New York

By Douglas A. Berman

This article in today's Wall Street Journal, headlined "Executives Teach Inmates How to Be Employees," spotlights that the reentry movement can be aided by, and benefits from the involvement of, all types of people.  Here is how the article starts:Mark Goldsmith didn't expect to go to jail when he volunteered to be "principal for a day" at a New York City school. But after requesting a "tough school," he was assigned to Horizon Academy, a high school for inmates ages 18 to 24 at Rikers Island prison. Mr. Goldsmith, a former executive at Revlon and Shiseido, was ushered through locked gates to the prison's classrooms. Standing in front of his new class, he looked at the young students and saw in them signs of his own difficult youth...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 17, 2008 (boomark / email).