Date: July 3, 2024
Source: Good Morning America
A mom of three who spent more than three years in prison is now spending her summer completing an internship at an Ivy League school.
Mary McCrary, 40, of Nashville Tennessee, credits her turnaround from prison to Princeton University, where she is studying, to a coding class she took during her time in prison.
“The class alone made you feel like you’re a human being, that I was working towards something, that there is a goal in sight, I am going to accomplish something, and I did,” McCrary told “Good Morning America.” “That does give you confidence and hope.”
McCrary took the coding class while at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, where she served time due to a parole violation following a conviction for aggravated burglary, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction.
The class, part of the center’s Persevere program, allows inmates to earn front end web developer or full stack web developer certifications, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction.
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