"We live in a disposable world." Thus says Todd Young, one graduate of college program at the maximum security prison at Sing Sing. .Mr. Young maintains that America has become a society where we throw things out - old appliances, old computers, old cell phones, old furniture, old clothes.
Forum: Connecticut Must Do Better To End Hyper-incarceration
By The Rev. Marilyn B. Kendrix, New Haven Register
Wed, 10/22/2014 - 2:14pm
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