Suffolk jail develops youth rehab program
Photo credit: Randee Daddona | At the Riverhead Correctional Facility, teens between the age of 16 and 19 work in a classroom setting on projects learning art, design and visual communications under the guidance of instructor Talia Mochi Cliffe at Suffolk County Sheriff's Office in Riverhead. (Dec. 20, 2012)
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Dressed in olive drab jerseys and pants, and hard at work inside a makeshift classroom, seven young jail inmates focused on the day they are free again.
Some, like Marvin, 18, slide T-squares along graph paper to finish architectural sketches of homes both real and imagined. Others, including Khalid, 18, who aspires to be an audio engineer, work on resumes and fine tune graphic arts skills...
