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Convicts Work With Boys To Keep Them From Penitentiary
In Lansing Kansas convicts run a weekly program inside the state penitentiary where about a dozen boys and several adults meet for three hours. The inmate volunteers, serving 279 years total, share hard lessons from their lives in attempts to steer at risk youths away from crime and back toward productive paths.
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Charlie
Kansas State Penitentiary
Pete
Johnny
Sherman H. Crouse
W. J. Smith
Johnson County