What I see the inmates do for these kids is fantastic.  Most of them (the inmates) have lost their entire life, have nothing left to look forward too, yet they have stepped up to the plate to make a difference if they can.  I am sure none will be pardoned for this effort, or will they be lavished in the life of luxury, but, being there to try and make amends and a possible difference deserves, at the very least, honourable mention.  Keep up the great work!

i would love to sign up my daughter for this she is out of control already and shes only 8 the way i grew up and how i ended up i dont want that for her someone please tell me how to sign her up .

This program is absolutely amazing. I teach at risk children who could possibly follow down the same path as the young people and the inmates on the program. They are only in 5th grade but I do my absolute best to help them understand that one wrong choice could ruin the rest of their life. I really wish I could show this program to my students. I think it would have a great impact on them.

As a former inmate spending 3 years behind bars from the age of 19 to 22,( i am 25 now) I see this is a great program to try and turn young teens around. I never had someone there telling me what i was doing would lead me to prison, but if i had things might have been different for me. These inmates have lost everything and many are facing spending the rest of their lives behind bars. they see that they lost everything so they are reaching out to these teens in efforts to make sure they do not do the same thing they did. This is what the program is designed for. If we paid the inmates in any form, then more and more inmates would try to sign up for the program just to get paid, making the program less affective. If these inmates want to make admends for thier crimes, they can start by changing the lives of teens who may be on their own destructive path. I say that we do not paid the inmates for this program and let them want to do it for free. The inmates who do it for free and because they want to will have the most impact on these teens that come into the program. Why tarnish something that is amazing and works?