VOA标准英语2010年-Jail Mixes Recipe for Rehab Success

Inmates² at California's San Mateo County Jail have found their own recipe for success.
There's a special contest in the jail's kitchen. Women in white chef's jackets race around with onions and skillets. Four teams have just two hours to prepare and serve seven dishes. The dishes include Jambalaya stew³, pecan pie and roasted salmon⁴.
Inmate¹ Angela Reyes scoops⁵ the vegetables, while the other women on her cooking team plate the fish and wipe the edge.
"Cleaning the edges with a wet cloth so that way its presentation isn't all the grease and oil that we might have spilt around," she says.
The team then rushes the dish out to the judges, who are generous with their praise.
Cooking for successThe chef at the San Mateo County Jail came up with the idea of offering cooking classes so inmates could learn the basics of the trade. Elihu Catell was frustrated⁶ to find the same inmates returning to his breakfast room once they'd done their time and been released.
"I started asking them, what happened? 'Well, nothing happened. I didn't do nothing. I just went back to the same things,'" says Catell. "I said, 'Well, what if something happens here that makes you see something different than that?'"Catell's friend Adam Weiner runs the culinary program for a local social support organization called Job Train. The two teamed up in January to offer weekly classes at the jail. All 12 of the women inmates, and almost a dozen of the men, participated in the most recent class. Weiner says the hope is that - once they're released - the inmates will continue their studies with daily courses at Job Train's facility.
"They learn how to get a job, how to write a resume, how to work with a boss, how to get promoted," says Weiner. "They're learning far more than how to hold a knife and peel an onion."Some of the former inmates have gone on to jobs at restaurants, catering⁷ companies and on cruise ships.
Working togetherWeiner says one of his favorite parts of the jail cooking competition was that each team included inmates and leaders from the county's criminal justice system.
"It was kind of showing everybody, instead of an 'us versus⁸ them,' it was a 'we can all work together and we can all work together as a team to do something creative.'"When it came time to pick the judges for the competition, there was at least one natural for the job: Steven Hall, the presiding judge of San Mateo County.
Hall has seen some of these women before - in his courtroom.
"Everybody here is really committed to trying to get folks who are going to be coming back into the community re-employed with job skills so that if I see them again they'll be a juror, not in front of me in custody," he says.
High hopesThat's what Jenelle Delugg hopes for. She came to cheer on the women she?served time with up until two months ago. In the days leading up to her release, she was allowed to leave the jail to take classes at the nonprofit's regular school.
"I only did that for a couple weeks before I was actually released. The day I was released I went to school," she says. "I had to report at school and I've not missed a day since."Now, in addition to culinary training, she's learning computer skills and getting advice on dressing⁹ professionally through Job Train.
Experts say this kind of integrated program increases prisoners' chances for future success. Mindy Tarlow is chief executive officer for the New York-based non-profit Center for Employment Opportunities.
"What's really important is to start training programs on the inside, be able to continue them on the outside," says Mindy Tarlow, chief executive officer for the New York-based nonprofit Center for Employment Opportunities. "So that people can get the training that they need in a seamless way from inside prison to outside prison."And then, on to a job. Tarlow says vocational programs work. A 2006 study found a 12 percent reduction in recidivism¹⁰ among inmates who'd received job training while incarcerated¹¹. Culinary arts director Weiner says that no one who has participated in Job Train's cooking program has returned to the San Mateo prison system.
Amelia Otis, who said she was serving time me for a parole violation¹², was one of the winners of the cook off.
"I thought it was like a little cooking class just to keep us busy, but it's way more than that," says Otis. "It's like an experience that we can take on, that we can take beyond the walls of this facility to keep us on the right track so we don't have to end up back here."Officials at the jail hope to hold two of these competitions each year. They aspire¹³ to open the program to more of the male inmates while also expanding it to other facilities.

1 inmate   

n.被收容者；(房屋等的)居住人；住院人

参考例句：

• I am an inmate of that hospital.我住在那家医院。
• The prisoner is his inmate.那个囚犯和他同住一起。

2 inmates   

n.囚犯( inmate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• One of the inmates has escaped. 被收容的人中有一个逃跑了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The inmates were moved to an undisclosed location. 监狱里的囚犯被转移到一个秘密处所。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 stew   

n.炖汤，焖，烦恼；v.炖汤，焖，忧虑

参考例句：

• The stew must be boiled up before serving.炖肉必须煮熟才能上桌。
• There's no need to get in a stew.没有必要烦恼。

4 salmon   

n.鲑，大马哈鱼，橙红色的

参考例句：

• We saw a salmon jumping in the waterfall there.我们看见一条大马哈鱼在那边瀑布中跳跃。
• Do you have any fresh salmon in at the moment?现在有新鲜大马哈鱼卖吗？

5 scoops   

n.小铲( scoop的名词复数 )；小勺；一勺[铲]之量；（抢先刊载、播出的）独家新闻v.抢先报道( scoop的第三人称单数 )；（敏捷地）抱起；抢先获得；用铲[勺]等挖（洞等）

参考例句：

• two scoops of mashed potato 两勺土豆泥
• I used three scoops of flour and one(scoop)of sugar. 我用了三杓面粉和一杓糖。 来自辞典例句

6 frustrated   

adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
• The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 catering   

n. 给养

参考例句：

• Most of our work now involves catering for weddings. 我们现在的工作多半是承办婚宴。
• Who did the catering for your son's wedding? 你儿子的婚宴是由谁承办的？

8 versus   

prep.以…为对手，对；与…相比之下

参考例句：

• The big match tonight is England versus Spain.今晚的大赛是英格兰对西班牙。
• The most exciting game was Harvard versus Yale.最富紧张刺激的球赛是哈佛队对耶鲁队。

9 dressing   

n.(食物)调料；包扎伤口的用品，敷料

参考例句：

• Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
• The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。

10 recidivism   

n.累犯，再犯

参考例句：

• Many areas and work units have experienced no recidivism at all for as long as ten or more years.不少地区和单位出现了连续几年、十几年没有发生重新犯罪的好典型。
• It needs to supplement the personality factor to confirm the ordinary recidivism.在普通累犯成立的条件中,应增加罪犯的人格因素。

11 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

12 violation   

n.违反(行为)，违背(行为)，侵犯

参考例句：

• He roared that was a violation of the rules.他大声说，那是违反规则的。
• He was fined 200 dollars for violation of traffic regulation.他因违反交通规则被罚款200美元。

13 aspire   

vi.(to，after)渴望，追求，有志于

参考例句：

• Living together with you is what I aspire toward in my life.和你一起生活是我一生最大的愿望。
• I aspire to be an innovator not a follower.我迫切希望能变成个开创者而不是跟随者。