Volunteers teach debating skills to America’s incarcerated
It helps prepare them for life after jail
“ANYONE who’s ever been in a courtroom accused of something knows that the presumption of innocence is an assumption of guilt. That’s the actual way it is,” said Domenick Crispino, bluff and jovial as he spoke from behind a lectern. He knows whereof he speaks. After the word “something” he smiled sheepishly and raised his hand: Mr Crispino, a former lawyer, spent six years behind bars.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Arguing behind bars”
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