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According to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, a man walking his dog found Okrent, who had a single stab wound to the neck. Officials said Okrent was still alive when authorities arrived on the scene...
...eyes bulged, her mouth dropped, she put down her fork. She demanded, "You volunteer where?" I won't ever forget my aunt's reaction to my decision to volunteer at the Suffolk Country House of Corrections. Through the Harvard Prisoner Education Program, approximately 35 students drive in a van to a medium security prison to tutor inmates. One Harvard student is paired with one inmate, a relationship which ideally lasts throughout the stay of the inmate. The curriculum ranges from basic math to advanced calculus, depending on the skill level of the tutee...
Most of the inmates at Suffolk Country House of Corrections were convicted of crimes involving substance abuse. While some prisoners have committed violent crimes, they can only stay at Suffolk if their sentence is two years or under, which obviously excludes rapists and murderers. A row of classrooms, the setting for tutors in the prison, is very comfortable. There are no screens or bars between tutor and tutee; we sit at desks very similar to those in our lecture halls. Guards periodically roam the halls to check on the safety of the tutors...
Eddie, the cab driver-by-day who is The Littlest Bar's bouncer, says most of the students at the Pub come from Suffolk or BU. Harvard students would benefit from joining this small crowd, sitting under the (separate) photographs of the Pope and Joe Louis and having a great pint of Guinness (drawn by someone who knows how). One caveat: the policy on underage drinking is very strict at The Littlest Pub--you can try it, but you can't get away with...
...sure enough, as the pack of horses approaches the final turn, the Suffolk Downs audio system tells me that Land Ahoy and Two Mikes are running one and two--just as it says on my betting slip. As visions of expensive dinners and new compact discs course through my mind, my entire body clenches up and my heart rate quickens...