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1 man is determined¹ to break the cycle and not end up back in prison

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Daniel Duron changed his life by earning his bachelor's degree behind bars. His path will be more available next year, when people in federal and state prisons will once again qualify for Pell grants.

LEILA FADEL, HOST:

Every year, about half a million people are released from U.S. prisons. Within three years, most of them will end up back inside. NPR's Elissa Nadworny has been reporting on several men who hope to break that cycle by getting a college degree behind bars. It's an opportunity that will become more widely available next year when the federal government reopens Pell education grants to people incarcerated³ in federal and state prisons. For the next two days, we're going to hear from one of the students that Elissa came to know. She takes us to Claremont, Calif., for the first part of his story.

ELISSA NADWORNY, BYLINE⁵: Twenty minutes ago, Daniel Duron walked out of prison for the first time in 4 1/2 years.

DANIEL DURON: I'm an emotional dude, so it kind of was, like - it was kind of overwhelming.

NADWORNY: He's still kind of in shock. Freedom hasn't really set in for the 40-year-old.

DURON: I thought, like, any minute they're going to like, oh, never mind. Go back to the building.

NIGEL BOYLE: Yeah.

DURON: And they were going to be like, never mind. You're not going home today.

NADWORNY: Waiting for him at the prison gates, not family or friends...

BOYLE: You know, you're a full-time⁶ student, and you want to kind of stay in that kind of mindset.

NADWORNY: ...But one of his college professors, Nigel Boyle.

DURON: You coming down and picking me up was, like, really inspiring for a lot of the guys there. They were like, that shows the commitment the school has to you guys.

BOYLE: Yeah. But, you know, OK, Pitzer's a small college. We do these kinds of things for our students. And you're our students now. So...

NADWORNY: They're in Boyle's beat up red minivan, headed to Pitzer's campus in Claremont, the liberal arts college where Daniel's been taking college classes for the past few years from prison.

DURON: It's my third...

BOYLE: Yeah.

DURON: ...Prison term, unfortunately.

BOYLE: So this is the third time you've been released.

DURON: Yeah.

BOYLE: So...

DURON: Unfortunately.

BOYLE: Does this feel different from the other two times?

DURON: Yeah. I mean, this whole experience I was in and my whole mindset, too - like, I'm not the same person that went in.

NADWORNY: That person that went in grew up in Fontana, Calif., about an hour from LA.

DURON: I guess crime was always present, like, from - I guess from birth, I guess. My home was like a gang hangout den⁴.

NADWORNY: Daniel says his grandfather and his father both spent time in prison. His mother struggled with addiction⁷. And his grandmother raised him. He recalls joining a gang when he was 12, a decision that made him feel safe, protected. He got a high school diploma, a first in his family, in a juvenile⁸ detention⁹ facility and spent much of his adulthood¹⁰ doing time in prison. His most recent offense¹¹ was a domestic violence charge.

DURON: It's shameful¹² to talk about the, like - I did that. I'm embarrassed by it. I didn't want to do it. I mean, I don't know. Just maybe my emotions condition at the time wasn't there. And I had issues to work through.

NADWORNY: When he looks back, he guesses he had the maturity¹³ of a 5-year-old. But then in that third stint¹⁴ in prison, a rare opportunity came along. He started taking college classes.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: All right, so group one, Ron, Daniel, Joseph - if y'all can come on down and...

NADWORNY: That's where producer Lauren Migaki and I first met Daniel - in the fall of 2020 over Zoom¹⁵ at the California Rehabilitation¹⁶ Center, a medium security prison.

UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT: Daniel's raising his hand.

UNIDENTIFIED PROFESSOR #1: Yes, Daniel?

DURON: I was going to say "Bambi" (ph) was interesting from the...

NADWORNY: Daniel is taking classes in philosophy, religion and writing from Pitzer College, working his way towards a degree in organizational studies.

UNIDENTIFIED PROFESSOR #2: ...From understanding patriarchy that we should make note of here?

DURON: Yeah, I got one.

UNIDENTIFIED PROFESSOR #2: Oh, yeah. Let's hear it.

DURON: So they were incalculating (ph) patriarchal values in their kids even before...

NADWORNY: There are very few colleges that offer degrees inside prisons, since the federal government has for the last quarter century banned federal money to help pay for it. Daniel's opportunity to pursue a bachelor's degree from prison was a rare one.

DURON: I still feel, like, unworthy of, like, all this opportunity. Like, what did I do? Why me? There's thousands of people literally¹⁷ in prison that are waiting for the same opportunity. And it's like - it's overwhelming. Like, I'm...

NADWORNY: But more and more colleges are starting to offer college programs in prisons. Next year, in 2023, that federal ban will lift, and people like Daniel will have access to federal Pell Grants to pay for college. College classes, Daniel says, helped him, for the first time, process his trauma¹⁸, his identity, his guilt¹⁹.

DURON: These Pitzer courses have been, like - they really gave me a lot more perspective of the world and how to see the world and how to view the world and feel about it.

BOYLE: That makes me happy to hear that.

DURON: I mean, I think the desire and want to be, like, a decent person was always there. I just never really had the tools or, like, the opportunity to do it.

NADWORNY: The plan was to complete the degree in prison. But an early release thanks to COVID and those college credits means Daniel still has classes to finish - on the outside.

BOYLE: So this is Pitzer. That's - the president's office is in that building there.

NADWORNY: And that is why Daniel Duron finds himself, on the day he was released from prison, riding in his professor's red minivan, pulling into Pitzer's campus.

BOYLE: But my plan was just to park here now and to just go on a little walking tour inside.

NADWORNY: Daniel climbs out of Nigel's van.

DURON: It's a lot bigger than I thought.

NADWORNY: It's the first time he's stepped foot on a college campus.

DURON: Do you think I could be able to meet the professors, too, that I took classes with, like Derik Smith and all the other ones?

BOYLE: Yeah, sure.

FADEL: Daniel's shed his blue prison uniform for a new navy Pitzer sweatshirt. And he wanders around the campus, where palm trees, a pool and playing fields wrap around the whitewashed²⁰ academic buildings he's only ever seen on a screen.

DURON: I picture, like, students sitting around, playing guitars sometimes? Or no?

BOYLE: Yeah. See - that's more on the Mounds²¹.

NADWORNY: Pitzer College, through an anonymous²² donor²³, has made finishing his degree on the outside possible with free tuition and housing on campus. But as Daniel looks around, his self-doubt creeps in. He's excited but uncomfortable. What do students wear, he asks Nigel? Am I smart enough to go here?

DURON: I don't even think I write well. I'm self-conscious about my writing, man.

BOYLE: I've graded your papers, and you do write well.

NADWORNY: It's not just the crisis of confidence. Daniel, like many other people leaving prison and entering society, has a lot of challenges ahead. He'll need to stay clean and out of trouble, navigate²⁴ his reentry to the free world at the same time he navigates²⁵ his senior year of college in person to show himself and his community the value of college in prison. Elissa Nadworny, NPR News, Claremont, Calif.

1 determined   

adj.坚定的；有决心的

参考例句：

• I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
• He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。

2 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

3 incarcerated   

钳闭的

参考例句：

• They were incarcerated for the duration of the war. 战争期间，他们被关在狱中。 来自辞典例句
• I don't want to worry them by being incarcerated. 我不想让他们知道我被拘禁的事情。 来自电影对白

4 den   

n.兽穴；秘密地方；安静的小房间，私室

参考例句：

• There is a big fox den on the back hill.后山有一个很大的狐狸窝。
• The only way to catch tiger cubs is to go into tiger's den.不入虎穴焉得虎子。

5 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

6 full-time   

adj.满工作日的或工作周的，全时间的

参考例句：

• A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
• I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作，我不知道她是如何对付的。

7 addiction   

n.上瘾入迷，嗜好

参考例句：

• He stole money from his parents to feed his addiction.他从父母那儿偷钱以满足自己的嗜好。
• Areas of drug dealing are hellholes of addiction,poverty and murder.贩卖毒品的地区往往是吸毒上瘾、贫困和发生谋杀的地方。

8 juvenile   

n.青少年，少年读物；adj.青少年的，幼稚的

参考例句：

• For a grown man he acted in a very juvenile manner.身为成年人，他的行为举止显得十分幼稚。
• Juvenile crime is increasing at a terrifying rate.青少年犯罪正在以惊人的速度增长。

9 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

10 adulthood   

n.成年，成人期

参考例句：

• Some infantile actions survive into adulthood.某些婴儿期的行为一直保持到成年期。
• Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.如今很少有人能将友谊维持到成年。

11 offense   

n.犯规，违法行为；冒犯，得罪

参考例句：

• I hope you will not take any offense at my words. 对我讲的话请别见怪。
• His words gave great offense to everybody present.他的发言冲犯了在场的所有人。

12 shameful   

adj.可耻的，不道德的

参考例句：

• It is very shameful of him to show off.他向人炫耀自己，真不害臊。
• We must expose this shameful activity to the newspapers.我们一定要向报社揭露这一无耻行径。

13 maturity   

n.成熟；完成；(支票、债券等)到期

参考例句：

• These plants ought to reach maturity after five years.这些植物五年后就该长成了。
• This is the period at which the body attains maturity.这是身体发育成熟的时期。

14 stint   

v.节省，限制，停止；n.舍不得化，节约，限制；连续不断的一段时间从事某件事

参考例句：

• He lavished money on his children without stint.他在孩子们身上花钱毫不吝惜。
• We hope that you will not stint your criticism.我们希望您不吝指教。

15 zoom   

n.急速上升；v.突然扩大，急速上升

参考例句：

• The airplane's zoom carried it above the clouds.飞机的陡直上升使它飞到云层之上。
• I live near an airport and the zoom of passing planes can be heard night and day.我住在一个飞机场附近，昼夜都能听到飞机飞过的嗡嗡声。

16 rehabilitation   

n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位

参考例句：

• He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
• No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。

17 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

18 trauma   

n.外伤，精神创伤

参考例句：

• Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
• The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。

19 guilt   

n.犯罪；内疚；过失，罪责

参考例句：

• She tried to cover up her guilt by lying.她企图用谎言掩饰自己的罪行。
• Don't lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.别因为功课责备孩子而使他觉得很内疚。

20 whitewashed   

粉饰，美化，掩饰( whitewash的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The wall had been whitewashed. 墙已粉过。
• The towers are in the shape of bottle gourds and whitewashed. 塔呈圆形，状近葫芦，外敷白色。 来自汉英文学 - 现代散文

21 mounds   

土堆，土丘( mound的名词复数 )； 一大堆

参考例句：

• We had mounds of tasteless rice. 我们有成堆成堆的淡而无味的米饭。
• Ah! and there's the cemetery' - cemetery, he must have meant. 'You see the mounds? 啊，这就是同墓，”——我想他要说的一定是公墓，“看到那些土墩了吗？

22 anonymous   

adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的

参考例句：

• Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
• The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

23 donor   

n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体

参考例句：

• In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
• The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。

24 navigate   

v.航行，飞行；导航，领航

参考例句：

• He was the first man to navigate the Atlantic by air.他是第一个飞越大西洋的人。
• Such boats can navigate on the Nile.这种船可以在尼罗河上航行。

25 navigates   

v.给（船舶、飞机等）引航，导航( navigate的第三人称单数 )；（从海上、空中等）横越；横渡；飞跃

参考例句：

• Dolpins also navigates by some kind of echo system. 原来海豚也是借助某种回声系统寻向的。 来自辞典例句
• Navigates in menus, lists, choice screens and into edited texts. 可以操纵菜单、列表、屏幕选项和进入编辑文本。 来自互联网