The New York Theological Seminary brought the first master's program to prisoners at Sing Sing Correctional Facility 40 years ago. TVJessi shows us how the seminary is marking the milestone with an expansion and another first.
- The New York Theological Seminary brought the first master's program to prisoners at Sing Sing Correctional Facility 40 years ago. The seminary is marking the milestone with an expansion, launching the first master's program for incarcerated women in the state of New York.
"As the first woman president, my question was, well, why aren't we doing this for the women?" Walrond recalled. "When you look at statistics you see many of these women have suffered violence," Walrond said."Many of them have had challenges even with addiction, but it all started with something that happened in the past."
"She said that our father had been raping her and he gave her heroin and told her to take the heroin so the pain would go away," Sam said, remembering conversations."Another woman said that the only time she was able to spend time with her mom was when they smoke crack together… and then I began to realize that these women didn't have a choice."
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