Light One Candle

by Gerald M. Costello

by Stephanie Raha, Editor-in-chief, The Christophers

by  Gerald M. Costello,  The Christophers

by Stephanie Raha, Editor -in-chief,  The Christophers

Gerald M. Costello, Interim Director, The Christophers

Gerald M. Costello, Interim Director, The Christophers

As new colleges go, the statistics are pretty impressive: 196 graduates in 10 years, current enrollment of 107, and a waiting list two-and-a-half years long.  This is no ordinary college, though; it’s the one taught at night to inmates at Sing Sing, the famed New York prison.  And here’s the most impressive statistic of all: of the 196 graduates, 41 have been released – and so far, not one has returned to prison.

Stephanie Raha, Editor-in-chief, The Christophers

By Gerald M. Costello

By Stephanie Raha, Editor-in-chief, The Christophers
August is a quiet month without any major holidays.  People often take vacations to get away from the heat of summer.  Yet it was in August, 1945, three months after Germany capitulated to the Allies, that World War II reached its hard-fought end when Japan agreed to an unconditional surrender after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.