Some important stories from the promising side of incarceration stories ... Five Prison Charities Helping Inmates Give Back [Ben Murray] Conviction to Change: Five ways prison inmates are giving back -The Long Termers Organization, Chowchilla, California ...
"In the farmlands east of San Jose, behind the fences of the octagon-shaped Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW), members of one of the country's most active and effective women’s prison groups have an interesting new idea: they’d like to sponsor a Girl Scout troop.
"The plan, if they can do it, is to start a troop made up of daughters of inmates that, with the aid of outside coordinators, would be just like any other troop in America—except it would occasionally gather at the institution..."
