Sparkling in the sunlight that inspired 19th-century romantic painters of the Hudson River School, Sing Sing prison’s razor wire, through which inmates can see the flowing river, is almost pretty. Read More
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Sing Sing Prison Inmates Urge their Children to Make Positive Life Choices
Ossining program serves an outreach to prisoners’ young family members. “For many of the children in the neighborhood, they look up to us for all the wrong reasons. They look at prison as a rite of passage,” Sing Sing inmate Dario Pena said. Read More
$20,000 Gannett Foundation Grant Awards
Gannett Foundation Grant Reception in White Plains, Jan. 18, 2017. The media group awarded $20,000 to four organizations, including Hudson Link, in the lower Hudson Valley. Read More
Education Programs for NY Prisoners Who Want to Get Out and Stay Out
A course at Clinton Correctional prison taught him to cut and solder pipes for air conditioning systems but the lesson Steuben Vega remembers best is how to count cards. Read More
Hudson Link Proves the Power of Prison Education
Douglas Duncan dropped out of high school with little self-worth or hope for a future. Associations with the wrong people and a string of poor choices landed him in prison at the age of 24 with three young children at home.
“I believed that my life was over. I believed that I had no possibility of redemption. I believed that prison was all I was worth.” Read More
What Is Recidivism And What Can We Do About It?
With the highest incarceration rate in the world, the United States is home to an estimated 6.8 million people under supervision in the U.S. adult correctional system, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Read More