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Adam Friedman Colgate, '89
After Prison Transformation-Helping ex-inmates re-enter society
As the deputy director of Exodus, a nonprofit in East Harlem, N.Y., Friedman helps ex-inmates set goals, find jobs, and create a stable life, if they want one. The organization, which was the subject of Hard Road Home, a documentary that aired on PBS last winter, provides substance abuse and anger management programs as well as employment assistance, and more recently focuses on documenting statistics about the outcomes of their clients. "What's great about Exodus is we're an experimental re-entry agency," Friedman said. "We're on the front lines testing new things. Our goal is to create an effective re-entry model that can be replicated nationwide." In the United States, where one in 100 adults are incarcerated, it is a model that fulfills a crucial need. "There are ripples of misery with each person who goes back to prison," Friedman said. "Caring about people who have done some awful things is important for a society." Friedman admits that even for himself, prisons weren't something that he spent too much time thinking about early on. After graduating from Colgate with a math degree, he first worked as an actuary, then spent years as a successful advertising copywriter. If you'd told him then that he would be running Exodus now, he would have laughed. "It didn't come close to occurring to me," he said. "I changed." Friedman can't pinpoint the exact time when prisons simply became something he saw as important. "I think the concept of loving your enemy is the way to change the world most profoundly," Friedman Said. "For a true change in our culture, prison is a place to start. In a prison, you have a lot of control over people's lives, which you can use for good or ill." One of his first experiences was volunteering as a mediation teacher in Manhattan prisons from 1999 to 2006. He joined Exodus in 2005. Friedman's work today is far from the actuarial and advertising worlds. Most of his co-workers are ex-inmates. Even so, Exodus "is not a scary place," he said. What I'm scared of is that employment retention data won't get put in the database, not that someone is going to hit me over the head with a brick." His job has mostly provided the opportunity to make the difference he had hope for. He splits his time between fundraising and program development, but he also works one on one with clients, which gives him the chance to ese their transformation back into everyday society firsthand. "One guy, a big gangster who did 25 years, came over to our house for Seder," he said. "My son invited him to his fourth birthday party. Change is definitely possible." That's the message of Exodus for which Friedman works so hard. "It doesn't mean people will change," he cautioned. "But the fact that someone did horrific stuff doesn't mean they can't."
See Adam conquer a life-long fear with the help of his colleagues at Exodus (youtube video).
Article reproduced from the Colgate Scene, Autumn 2008 issue.
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