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A Short Story Of George Chochos
People may think that just because we give an inmate education they will never change in life. I don’t agree on that George Chochos is a person who went jail to Yale and his story will prove all my 3 points. Chochos was first arrested when he was 18, serving only 8 months he got out and as months went on he was in and out of jails and colleges. On October 1999 chochos was sentenced to a 14 year sentence for bank robberies. Chochos spent the first 10 months in the Rensselaer County Jail, and then was transferred to Downstate Correctional Facility for 10 days until eventually he was sent to the sing sing correctional

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