[Richard]

I really don't see the umbrage with this.

She drove the getaway car for a robbery, served 22 years of a 75 year sentence in prison as an accessory, and was honorably paroled.

She now lectures to future social workers and lawyers on the parole system and the issues facing convicts and their families when a person is released from prison. She sounds far more qualified to do so than any of us or - perhaps - many other professors who teach the same subject material. I would imagine her personal vignettes on her experiences with the NY prison and parole systems would make for some interesting lectures.

Dr. Kathy Boudin has been an educator and counselor with experience in program development since 1964, working within communities with limited resources to solve social problems, and supporting individuals to overcome their own odds and develop a sense of strength and direction. Dr. Boudin has focused her work on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and criminal justice issues including women in prison; mother-child relationships and parenting from a distance; adolescent relationships with incarcerated parents; restorative justice, and higher education and basic literacy inside correctional institutions.

Dr. Boudin is employed by the Center for Comprehensive Care, HIV AIDS Center, at St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital where she is developing programs related to health care for people who are HIV Positive and counseling patients individually and in groups. She is currently a consultant to the Osborne Association in the development of a Longtermers Responsibility Project taking place in the New York State Correctional Facilities utilizing a restorative practice approach. Dr. Boudin also has been a consultant for Vermont Corrections, the Women’s Prison Association, and Family Justice.
She has provided training and supervision to social workers as they work with individual people in prison.

She received her Ed.D. from Columbia University, Teachers College.

http://socialwork.columbia.edu/facul...y/kathy-boudin

She sounds like a model of what our prison system aims to do and often seems to fail at doing - punishing and then rehabilitating.

According to the accepted rules of our society, she's paid her debt - do we now deny her the ability to seek meaningful employment vs being a 'ward' of the state and yet another taxpayer borne burden?

And so it goes...

Richard