Your Mark On The World
#296: Ex-Convicts To Run The Other Side Academy To Help Convicts
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:23:15
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September 3, 2015 - Read the full Forbes article and watch the interview here: http://onforb.es/1JCaiNj. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwitunes or on Stitcher by clicking here: http://bit.ly/ymotwstitcher. Tim Stay, one of Utah’s leading tech entrepreneurs and executives, recently launched a new venture with successful entrepreneur Joseph Grenny. They’ve chosen several ex-convicts to run the new business, The Other Side Academy. [Jump to page 2 to watch the live interview.] This may not be such an odd choice. You see, the new venture, modeled closely on Delancey Street Foundation, is a nonprofit that will work to really rehabilitate convicts. Stay explained to me recently that our prisons “provide criminals with a masters degree in criminology” rather than rehabilitating them.” He elaborates, “The problem is that there is a portion of the criminal population that doesn’t get better by doing time. Many of them are repeat offenders, spending their lives in and out