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Article: Long-distance dads: Restoring incarcerated fathers to their children. (CT Feature).
- Article from:
- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
- Author:
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Sixteen-year-old David Moore III lives in the Intensive Treatment Unit in Erie, Pa., at the recommendation of his probation officer. He has struggled with drugs, alcohol and fighting in one of Pittsburgh's toughest districts, where he grew up. He wants to be just like his father. "He's intelligent, nice, caring and understanding," David brags about his father. "He teaches that you're not supposed to hate anybody."
But the elder David Moore was not always that way. He is serving a 17- to 35-year sentence in the State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Albion. He started his sentence the day his son turned 1. And he is one of nearly 600 inmates at Albion who have ...