“Stirling realized he couldn’t reach the prisoners and needed to do something completely different,” says DOC Director of Communications Chrysti Shain. Different has paid off.
Once inmates graduate from the Academy of Hope, they return to prisons as peacemakers. At Lee, they daily visit all cellblocks, called “dorms,” to “check the temperature,” as one put it, and to help fellow inmates resolve differences peacefully. Not surprisingly, it’s easier for inmates to take advice from fellow inmates than from state officers. “They respect us,” one of the men, age 40, told me. “A lot of them grew up in prison. I’ve been here 23 years.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/13/south-carolina-maximum-security-prison-hope/
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