News - Chess With Prisoners

by Life Positive

The Princeton University student is gifted with a brilliant mind, a movie-star smile and an understated self-confidence. His opponent, Kelvin Washington is a middle-aged man who is not going anywhere for the next 44 years. He’s a career criminal who has spent 29 years behind bars for a string of robberies and burglaries. In an unusual cultural exchange, students play with prisoners, thus increasing confidence and empathy in both.

Apply it: Play with someone not in your regular ‘gang’
Source: www.dailygood.org

January 2009