Ramiro asked:

I read the question from Dennis about his incarcerated son. I ask, isn't your life of freedom pretty
much over. Even if you do educate yourself, what is left for when you come out? You will have that
record hanging around your neck forever. So, what is left?

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Ok, now I have something specific to offer. Take a look at the Arts & Ideas section of the 8/9/03 issue
of the NY Times. On page A13 you will find a story titled "Professors with a Past". It is about people
who have been criminals who go to school in criminology. They have respectable jobs in academia,
and are valued because of their first-hand experience in the area. There's one guy at Northern
Kentucky University, who states, "Ex-cons make good criminology professors because we know so
much about the system". And so forth. And I would assume there are other related jobs which are
less academic, in criminology, where that kind of experience is valued.

So, I repeat... tell your son to get educated!

Steven Ravett Brown