[ti:Prison Program Aims to Get Teens to Avoid a Life of Crime]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:Education Report]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is the VOA Special English
[00:03.03]Education Report.
[00:05.08]A program in the eastern
[00:06.47]United States invites
[00:08.71]young people into a prison
[00:11.09]to try to scare them
[00:13.20]away from prison.
[00:14.26]The goal is to teach them
[00:16.75]to avoid bad choices
[00:18.68]and bad influences
[00:20.42]that could put them
[00:21.97]behind bars for life.
[00:23.65]Students can take a tour
[00:26.14]of the prison,
[00:26.95]in school groups
[00:28.38]or by themselves.
[00:29.93]At the end,
[00:31.37]the young people sit down
[00:33.12]for a discussion
[00:34.43]with some of the inmates.
[00:36.05]The program is called
[00:38.05]Prisoners Against Teen Tragedy,
[00:41.04]or PATT.
[00:42.84]It takes place
[00:43.84]at the Maryland Correctional
[00:45.70]Institution-Hagerstown,
[00:47.69]a medium-security prison for men.
[00:50.68]Sal Mauriello
[00:52.42]is a case specialist there.
[00:54.79]SAL MAURIELLO: "We have a group
[00:56.03]of eleven inmates
[00:57.51]who are in the PATT program.
[00:59.45]They tell the youth
[01:01.40]what they went through as a child,
[01:02.95]what their crimes consist of.
[01:04.82]They try to teach them
[01:06.93]about peer pressure.
[01:08.19]They try to teach them
[01:09.44]about bad choices."
[01:10.49]The Prisoners Against Teen
[01:12.17]Tragedy program also includes
[01:14.72]an essay-writing contest.
[01:17.02]Tomi Dare
[01:18.77]is a seventeen-year-old student
[01:21.57]at Hagerstown Community College.
[01:25.68]She saw an announcement
[01:27.61]for the contest
[01:28.54]on her college website.
[01:30.59]To enter, students had to write
[01:34.20]about peer pressure and
[01:36.50]why they do not do drugs.
[01:38.55]The prize: five hundred
[01:41.60]dollars for school.
[01:43.03]In her essay, Ms. Dare wrote
[01:46.58]about her own experience
[01:48.51]growing up as an African-American
[01:51.06]girl interested in sports.
[01:53.86]TOMI DARE: "Drugs and alcohol
[01:55.41]not only slow a person down,
[01:57.84]it doesn't make you feel like
[01:59.83]you are a winner.
[02:00.58]It doesn't make you feel like
[02:01.69]you are the best.
[02:02.44]As an athlete,
[02:03.13]I'm 6-2 [188 centimeters],
[02:04.87]so I feel that I should be
[02:07.29]above peer pressure
[02:07.98]because I'm bigger than
[02:08.92]everybody that I'm around.
[02:11.10]"So I was talking about that
[02:13.28]and I was talking about
[02:14.77]how I consider myself a queen.
[02:16.95]And if I'm royalty,
[02:19.00]I need to not put substances
[02:21.43]in my body.
[02:22.11]Drugs and alcohol are not
[02:24.97]what a queen should be taking."
[02:27.21]The scholarship is presented
[02:29.45]by the Prisoners
[02:30.32]Against Teen Tragedy program.
[02:33.18]Prison spokesman Mark Vernarelli says
[02:36.48]most teens who visit
[02:38.35]come to understand
[02:39.59]what even one bad decision can mean.
[02:43.71]MARK VERNARELLI: "A lot of men
[02:44.65]and women serving life in prison
[02:46.15]in the state of Maryland
[02:47.15]didn't pull a trigger
[02:48.27]or plunge a knife into anybody.
[02:49.45]They were accessories to a crime.
[02:51.19]They drove the getaway car.
[02:52.62]They were with the perpetrator
[02:54.36]who did the main part of the crime.
[02:55.87]And yet they got the life
[02:57.06]sentence as well. "
[02:58.00]Prisoners Against Teen Tragedy
[03:00.06]began in nineteen eighty-eight.
[03:02.61]PATT is one of Maryland's
[03:04.85]oldest programs to keep
[03:07.09]young people from a life of crime.
[03:09.89]But there are also others.
[03:12.25]MARK VERNARELLI: "We found that girls
[03:13.80]really need special sit-down sessions
[03:16.85]sometimes more than the boys do,
[03:18.41]so we have a program for girls only.
[03:20.34]We have a program that travels
[03:22.33]across the state,
[03:23.20]which talks about the dangers
[03:24.94]of gang affiliation.
[03:26.06]"We have an excellent program
[03:27.86]where the inmates actually
[03:29.36]lead a tour and they have
[03:31.22]the children eat the meal
[03:32.84]in the prison cafeteria
[03:34.02]with the inmates."
[03:35.14]Mark Vernarelli says
[03:36.51]the Prisoners Against
[03:37.94]Teen Tragedy also gain
[03:40.49]from the program.
[03:41.49]It offers them a chance
[03:43.60]to help repay society
[03:46.21]for their crimes,
[03:47.46]and keep others from
[03:49.32]following in their footsteps.
[03:51.81]And that's the VOA Special English
[03:55.05]Education Report.
[03:55.98]I'm Steve Ember.
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