(First published in The Washington Times, March 26, 2009)
Photo courtesy of Trevor Kobrin
Brent Taylor will never forget the day he met Catherine Rohr. It was dusk, and the prison basketball court painted a strange backdrop for a classy brunette in a business suit. More than 100 orange-clad Texas prisoners sat at her feet as she explained why she had quit her Wall Street job and moved halfway across the country to turn prisoners into businessmen.
Taylor, a first-time offender with a robbery conviction, was skeptical. “I couldn´t understand why someone like this was doing what she was doing,” he said.
