There's a new program on Rikers Island aimed at transforming inmates' lives through sports. The Twinning Project has teamed up the NYC Football Club to teach incarcerated men soccer and life skills. JennBisramTV shows us how it works.
The Twinning Project has teamed up the NYC Football Club to teach incarcerated men soccer and life skills.
"Soccer is a team sport, and learning through soccer will actually empower those on the course with characteristics they potentially never had pre-serving a custodial sentence. Things like anger management, team building, leadership," Twinning Project CEO Hilton Freund said. "When they are here, it keeps the violence down. It makes them be like a family," Department of Correction Assistant Commissioner Sonya Harvey said.
"A lot of them when they first walked in here had never kicked a ball before in their lives, you know. So we watched them progress from day one," NYCFC and Twinning Project coach Lee Mather said."Basically, we are here to learn how to be better people in society, learning the rules of the game, the fundamentals," he said."It helps me teach my kids in society, my son."
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