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38 juvenile offenders graduate from second chance program

A special graduation ceremony was held Friday for juvenile offenders in Racine.

38 juvenile offenders graduate from second chance program

A special graduation ceremony was held Friday for juvenile offenders in Racine.

YOUNG MEN CURRENTLY IN DOC CUSTODY AT THE RACINE YOUTH OFFENDER CORRECTIONAL FACILITY TURNING THEIR TASSELS AS PART OF THE CSSLA OF 2022. WHAT IS TODAY MEAN TO YOU? I NEVER THOUGHT THAT I’M SAYING I’LL EVEN MAKE IT THIS FAR 22 YEAR OLD JIMMY JACKSON IS THE YOUTH OFFENDER FROM KENOSHA. BUT TODAY AND FOREVERMORE. HE’S A GRADUATE RECEIVING HIS SMALL BINUSESS ENTREPRENEURSHIP DIPLOMA AFTER YEARS OF HARD WORK. WHERE IS CURRENTLY EXPLAIN? BECAUSE I GOT ALL THE TOOLS AND I ACTUALLY FINISHED WITH THIS DIPLOMA. HE’S HALFWAY TO AN ASSOCIATE’S DEGR WEEHEN HE’S RELEASED IN ABOUT A YEAR AND CLOSER TO HIS GOAL OFNE O DAY OWNGIN HIS OWN TRUCKING COMPANY LOCKED UP. BUT NOT MESSED UP. AND THEY ARE GOING TO ADD THREE WORDS TO THAT. AND MOVING ON 15 OF TODAY’S GRADUATES REPRESENT THE FIRST COHORT OF THE SECOND CHANCE PELL PROGRAM. THEY’RE ENROLLED WITH MADISON COLLEGE. IT’S AROGR PAM THAT PROVIDES NEED-BEDAS PELL GRANTS TO PEOPLE IN FEDERAL AND STATE PRISONS, AND IT SHOULD BE CALLED SECOND THIRD FOURTH FIFTH. SOMETIMES YOU NEED MULTIPLE CHANCES TO BUMPY HEAD A LITTLE BIT UNTIL YOU GET IT. RIGHT? WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT PEOEPL CAN LEARN FMRO WHAT YOU’VE ACCOMPLISHED TODAY? THE MAIN THING TO LEARN IS BASICALLY JUST NEVER GIVE UP, YOU KNOW ALWAYS BE BUMPS IN THE ROAD. YOU GOT TO CONTINUE TO PUSH FORWARD AND BUILDING. HERE IN RACINE, I’M JAREN JORDAN WISN 12 NEWS BY THE FALL THE SECOND CHANCE PELL PROGRAM WILL HAVE NEARL
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38 juvenile offenders graduate from second chance program

A special graduation ceremony was held Friday for juvenile offenders in Racine.

A special graduation ceremony was held Friday for juvenile offenders in Racine.Their road to a second chance at success was celebrated with pomp and circumstance. Thirty-eight students earned their small business entrepreneurship diplomas while at Racine Youthful Offender Correctional Facility.They were minors when they were adjudicated."I never thought that I would even make it this far," said Jimmy Jackson, 22, of Kenosha.He's now a graduate after years of hard work."Words can't really explain how I feel, cause I got all the tools and I actually finished it," Jackson said.With his diploma, he's halfway to an associate's degree when he is released in about a year.Jackson one day hopes to own his own trucking company."Locked up, not messed up and I'm going to add three words to that, 'And moving on,'" Madison College President Dr. Jack Daniels III said.Fifteen of the graduates represent the first cohort of the Second Chance Pell Program.They're enrolled with Madison College. The program provides need-based Pell grants to people in state and federal prisons."It should be called second, third, fourth, fifth, because sometimes you need multiple chances to bump your head a little bit until you get it right," education director Ronda Davis said. "The main thing to learn is basically never give up. There's always going to be bumps in the road. You just gotta continue to push forward and bet on yourself."By the fall, the Second Chance Pell Program will have nearly 60 enrollees at six Department of Corrections facilities across the state.

A special graduation ceremony was held Friday for juvenile offenders in Racine.

Their road to a second chance at success was celebrated with pomp and circumstance.

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Thirty-eight students earned their small business entrepreneurship diplomas while at Racine Youthful Offender Correctional Facility.

They were minors when they were adjudicated.

"I never thought that I would even make it this far," said Jimmy Jackson, 22, of Kenosha.

He's now a graduate after years of hard work.

"Words can't really explain how I feel, cause I got all the tools and I actually finished it," Jackson said.

With his diploma, he's halfway to an associate's degree when he is released in about a year.

Jackson one day hopes to own his own trucking company.

"Locked up, not messed up and I'm going to add three words to that, 'And moving on,'" Madison College President Dr. Jack Daniels III said.

Fifteen of the graduates represent the first cohort of the Second Chance Pell Program.

They're enrolled with Madison College.

The program provides need-based Pell grants to people in state and federal prisons.

"It should be called second, third, fourth, fifth, because sometimes you need multiple chances to bump your head a little bit until you get it right," education director Ronda Davis said. "The main thing to learn is basically never give up. There's always going to be bumps in the road. You just gotta continue to push forward and bet on yourself."

By the fall, the Second Chance Pell Program will have nearly 60 enrollees at six Department of Corrections facilities across the state.