It’s Never Too Late to Go to College and Rewrite Your Story
The New York Times, December 7, 2021: It’s Never Too Late to Go to College and Rewrite Your Story
“Mr. Simmons spent 15 years in prison. Since 2014, he’s been a free man — one whose trajectory was dramatically rerouted not once, but twice. As a reader and writer in prison, and then the first graduate — summa cum laude — of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Prison-to-College Pipeline program, he broke free of that dark narrative. In the years since, he’s devoted himself to rewriting it altogether.”
Additional reading:
Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison by Shaka Senghor on bookshop.org
incarcerationnationsnetwork.org
John Jay College’s Prison to College Pipeline
