A new prison-based social rehabilitation program, The Second Chance Program, is entering its sixth month in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Based on earlier successful pilot programs run in similar prison settings, it has education as a basic underlying key to effective rehab. The program is run by Joy Westrum, the president of the Second Chance Program (www.secondchanceprogram.net) and Rick Pendery, the national Executive Director of the Second Chance Centers and the steps ensure that the inmates who need remedial education have their reading level raised and those who can effectively study are given advanced educational tools to assist them in any further education that they may seek.
Pendery explains, “We recognized that many offenders have learning deficiencies th View the rest of this article
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