Nov. 1, 2008
Con Jobs
For those recently or about-to-be released from prison, job opportunities increase the will to resist the temptations — and avoid the lapses — that led to incarceration, writes Joseph H. Cooper. - Forum Column
Joseph H. Cooper
Joseph was editorial counsel at The New Yorker from 1976 to 1996, and now resides in Culver City. He is compiling his prison-related articles for publication as "Corrections - Essays from Inside: The In-Prison Education of Inmate-Students and Their Language-Arts Professor."
FORUM COLUMN
By Joseph H. Cooper There's a small-motor salvager: He was picking through an assortment of metal housings arrayed in an old produce grate. He turned a cylinder over and over, peering into it from several angles. He nodded with a salvager's satisfaction, "I can use the compression release and the intake manifold from this one." There's a cabinet-maker: He was in a makeshift corrugated shed, inspecting the varnish on a set of fi...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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