Inmates help kids stay on course

WARREN — Fifteen at-risk kids from the Warren area completed a four-week program this week that exposed them to life-changing lessons taught by eight to 10 inmates at the Trumbull Correctional Institution.

The program was through Deryck Toles’ Inspiring Minds organization. Toles, 29, a Warren Harding High School and Penn State University graduate who also played football in the NFL, said the class was the second one to participate in the sessions, known as The Youth for the Nation.

Toles said the sessions, conducted with an inmate group known as Links, took place for the second-consecutive summer, but it is being expanded to once every three months starting in October.

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