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Friday, January 8th 2021, 11:41 am By: CBS News SALINAS, California - For the past seven years, students from the Palma School in Salinas, California have been part of a book club at an unlikely place—Soledad State Prison. Mia Mirassou and Jim Micheletti founded the book club called "Exercises In Empathy." Micheletti told CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca that students would go into the prison afraid but would leave with a new perspective on the incarcerated men.  "They go in thinking monster … and they come out thinking a man. A human being … they've done bad things, but there ...

By Alexa Rodriguez Jan 8, 2021 California inmates make as little as eight cents an hour sweeping floors, building furniture, and clerking. If they have an industry job, they can do better, making $1 an hour, or around $100 per month, per CBS News. That's why it took three long years for a group of nearly 800 inmates at Soledad State Prison to amass $32,000–that's $24,000 of their own money, plus an $8,000 donation from outside the prison—which they swiftly gave away. Jason Bryant, now a former inmate, had been taking part in a prison book club in 2016 with students from Palma School, a ...

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CBS News Inmates work together to raise $32,000 for student's tuition For the past seven years, students from the Palma School in Salinas, California have been part of a book club at an unlikely place—Soledad State Prison. Mia Mirassou and Jim Micheletti founded the book club called "Exercises In Empathy." Micheletti told CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca that students would go into the prison afraid but would leave with a new perspective on the incarcerated men.  "They go in thinking monster … and they come out thinking a man. A human being … they've done bad things, but there a...

A high school student needed help with tuition, so an unlikely group stepped up: Prison inmates Kellie B. Gormly, The Washington Post Jan. 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Sy Newson Green, center, attended a book club at California's Soledad State Prison while he was a student at nearby Palma School. Jason Bryant, right, is one of the inmates who led the fundraising for Newson Green's tuition at the Catholic school.Courtesy of CNNShow MoreShow Less 2of5Sy Newson Green, center, at an Exercises in Empathy book club meeting with classmates from Palma School and his benefactors at ...