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New Technology Awaits Former Prisoners

Monday, October 24, 2005 12:51:57 PM
By DEEPTI HAJELA

Ayana Hancock, right, of Cedarhurst, N.Y., points to information on a computer screen as Osborne Association client services specialist David McHaney, center, helps her to negotiate her email account at the Osborne Association in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005. Hancock was in prison from 1999 until 2003. McHaney, who was in prison from 1996 until 2000, now works at the Osborne Association, which helps people involved in the criminal justice system achieve self-sufficiency, adopt healthy lifestyles, enter the workforce, rebuild their families and rejoin their communities. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)NEW YORK (AP) - When it comes to reading or arithmetic, Marvin Calvin is delighted to help his two children. He missed out on many of the duties of parenthood during a 10-year stretch in prison for armed robbery.

But when it comes to MP3 players, video game consoles, computers or the Internet, he is just baffled.

"I won't even sit down with them and play that little game thing because I don't even know how to operate it," said the 48-year-old Calvin, who was freed in July.


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