The inmates had spent the semester studying criminal justice with students from the University of Cambridge as part of a program called Learning Together. Jack Merritt, my classmate at Cambridge and a program participant, recited a poem he’d written on forgiveness and rehabilitation. Jack , who was 25 and from Cambridge, was stabbed to death during a terrorist attack near London Bridge on Friday. Just before the attack, Jack was in Fishmongers’ Hall, a building adjacent to the bridge, helping to lead a conference on prisoner rehabilitation, an alumni celebration for Learning Together. Jack was in a room of people, some on day release from prison, discussing possibilities for penal reform.

Source: New York Times December 01, 2019 15:45 UTC