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Prison program aims to get teens to avoid a life of crime

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This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

A program in the eastern United States invites young people into a prison to try to scare them away from prison. The goal is to teach them to avoid bad choices and bad influences that could put them behind bars for life.

Students can take a tour of the prison, in school groups or by themselves. At the end, the young people sit down for a discussion with some of the inmates.

The program is called Prisoners Against Teen Tragedy, or PATT. It takes place at the Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown, a medium-security prison for men. Sal Mauriello is a case specialist there.

SAL MAURIELLO: "We have a group of 11 inmates who are in the PATT program. They tell the youth what they went through as a child, what their crimes consist of. They try to teach them about peer pressure. They try to teach them about bad choices."

The Prisoners Against Teen Tragedy program also includes an essay-writing contest.

Tomi Dare is a 17-year-old student at Hagerstown Community College. She saw an announcement for the contest on her college website. To enter, students had to write about peer pressure and why they do not do drugs. The prize: 500 dollars for school.

In her essay, Ms. Dare wrote about her own experience growing up as an African-American girl interested in sports.

TOMI DARE: "Drugs and alcohol not only slow a person down, it doesn't make you feel like you are a winner. It doesn't make you feel like you are the best. As an athlete, I'm 6-2 [188 centimeters], so I feel that I should be above peer pressure because I'm bigger than everybody that I'm around.

"So I was talking about that and I was talking about how I consider myself a queen. And if I'm royalty, I need to not put substances in my body. Drugs and alcohol are not what a queen should be taking."

The scholarship is presented by the Prisoners Against Teen Tragedy program.

Prison spokesman Mark Vernarelli says most teens who visit come to understand what even one bad decision can mean.

MARK VERNARELLI: "A lot of men and women serving life in prison in the state of Maryland didn't pull a trigger or plunge a knife into anybody. They were accessories to a crime. They drove the getaway car. They were with the perpetrator who did the main part of the crime. And yet they got the life sentence as well. "

Prisoners Against Teen Tragedy began in 1988. PATT is one of Maryland's oldest programs to keep young people from a life of crime. But there are also others.

MARK VERNARELLI: "We found that girls really need special sit-down sessions sometimes more than the boys do, so we have a program for girls only. We have a program that travels across the state, which talks about the dangers of gang affiliation.

"We have an excellent program where the inmates actually lead a tour and they have the children eat the meal in the prison cafeteria with the inmates."

Mark Vernarelli says the Prisoners Against Teen Tragedy also gain from the program. It offers them a chance to help repay society for their crimes, and keep others from following in their footsteps.

And that's the VOA Special English Education Report. I'm Steve Ember.

(來源:VOA 編輯:陳丹妮)

 
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