Five years behind bars in the Georgia Department of Corrections gave Patrick Rodriguez time to think about how he would ever go back to school.
“When I was incarcerated, I just kept thinking about education,” Rodriguez said.
“I just kept thinking about what is it that I’m going to do to be able to make it in todays society, as somebody who now has a criminal record.”
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