NJ prisons teaching inmates job skills to avoid return to life of crime
For Herrera, 28, opening the salon is not just a business plan, it’s also a lifestyle change. The last time he paid the bills, he did so by selling cocaine — which landed him at Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in Yardville for drug, weapons and resisting arrest offenses.
With more than three years to go until he’s eligible for parole, Herrera is working in the prison barbershop to earn his cosmetology license.
"Hair’s always going to grow," he said. "It’s something you can always make money off of."
Prison workshops are more than a diversion from the monotony of life behind bars. They can give inmates a head start on one of their biggest and most important challenges: finding jobs after their release.
"That’s what’s going to decide whether you’re going to stay out there or come back in here," Herrera said.
With 65 percent of New Jersey’s inmates back in jail within five years of their release, state officials are emphasizing job training because employment is a crucial indicator of whether former prisoners will return to a life of crime. The Department of Corrections is spending $26 million on prison education this year, and some legislators are pushing for more funding.
White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf has a long-standing rule that players must have neat haircuts. 
Foundation, which sponsored a day of free haircuts, school supplies and food. “It's self-motivation, it's physical motivation, it's encouragement.
so how many haircuts planned for the day?
I didn't know had a twitter page, he the only dude I know that gets haircuts and is still wolfin!
You want something that's constant, but I only wanted to be me. You chance address and haircuts and boyfriends and lightbulbs-it's easy.
yay for haircuts! looking a little sloppy these days.
No, you look hot, haircuts are so '09.
