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Five Point Correctional Facility on top of being known for being a prison for violent people, it is a maximum security prison found in Seneca County that only takes males. This program has had quite he violent path with it’s prisoners are most of them are serious offenders. The most recent example of this was January of 2012 by an inmate named Carlos Abreu. Abreu who was 33 years old at the time has been charged multiple times with things like rape, attempted rape and assault. Abreu while in prison has gathered a total of 66 disciplinary infractions over the last 12 years, including things such as fighting and attacking officers. On top of this he just added another 9 by the incident that just happened, as Abreu attacked an officer and ended up stabbing two officer. The most absurd part about all of this was that Abreu reportbly stabbed the officers with a ballpoint pen, and gave them signifigant injuries. According to New York State Correctional Officers Benevolent Association how the story goes is Abreu who has been in prison since 1999 (for 13 years at the time) was trying to commit suicide was caught by officers and they took him to infintary. While in infantry, the staff took the restraints off of him so he could get X-rays and that is when everything went downhill. Once the restraints were let taken off Abreu went mad and started attacking people, he first went at two officers as he stabbed one of them twice in the hand, and the other once in the leg. After that altercation, he then tried to attack another two officers before finally being restrained. According to a Department of Corrections and Community Supervision spokeswoman, the two officers that were stabbed had to be taken to the hospital to be treated for multiple puncture wounds. Because of this Carlos Abreu added two counts each of assault of staff, violent conduct and refusing a direct order and one count each of possessing a weapon, creating a disturbance and interference to his resume of disciniplary infractions. Due to this issue Abreu was sent to the mental unit, leading to people questioning how the issue happened. Quoting a union representaivethis cause was one of many in the “significant rise in violence over the years,". This problem has been attributed to many things the union representative said such as staff cuts and prison closings.But this is controversal as many people argue if the violence has been going up or down throughout the decades.It is worth noting that all the way back in 1981, a prisoner by the name of Lemeul Smith killed the first on duty female officer and ever since \ the prison has been getting more and more violent. But what five point is most well known for is the educational program that it made with it’s prisoners. Five point correctional facility and Cornell paired together recently to be able to help the prisoners get education. This program was called the Cornell Prison Education Program or CPEP, in which Five points pairs with Cornell’s partner Cayuga Community College. On May 24, 2018 the first class was able to graduate in Romulus, New York (same place five points is located at). This class contained sixteen graduates overall, as they all received their Associate of Arts degrees surrounded by all of their families. According to Cornell.edu the graduating class included Jonathan Amidon, Donnell Baines, Jermaine Barrett, Jeffrey Berkley, Dedric Chislum, Chicko Dillard, Ansel Gouveia, Michael Hesse, Aaron Jarzynka, Jesse Johnston, Corey Kimmy, José Méndez, Richard Paul, Joseph Perez, Chester Wood and Christopher Wood. Nine Cornell Certificates in Liberal Arts also were awarded, to Berkley, Chislum, Dillard, Jarzynka, Johnston, Méndez and Paul, along with Jonathan M. Istvan and Adam Kitt. These students took multiple different types of classes such as liberal arts, social sciences and humanities. The people who taught these classes were teaching assistants and faculty from the colleges of Cornell, Cayuga CC, Hobart and William Smith, the University of Rochester and Keuka College. The liberal arts certificate, which was made up of 18 credits of work and was made especially for the Prisoner Education Program, to appeal the best to them. This program has been so successful that Senior Program Officer Eugene Tobin’s has an article on the Mellon Foundation talking about how successful the program was. According to the article in the 1970’s that is when colleges started having programs with prisons through pell grants, leading to them being able to educate these prisoners. This was until the mid 1990’s when this decision was overturned as Congress decided to take away grants from them leading to these programs being stopped. This decision stayed this way until Barack Obama came into office, overturning the decision again and giving grants back to the program letting the prisoners able to get an education. Called the “Second Chance Pell Pilot Program” which has a lot of optimism around it. There is no doubt that taking college courses reduces violence in prison, improves incarcerated students’ ties with their families, lowers recidivism rates, and improves job prospects upon release. The popular belief is that this program does a lot of positive for these prisoners such as make them less violent, better off with their family and gives them a better chance to get a job in the future.It is also well known that it cost less to educate them, then to have them behind bars. This fact is especially concerning, because advocates of this program have pointed out that their are more African American males in prison then in college. These facts and many quotes such as from a young man in the program saying that spent his teen to his early twenties “on the outside” and that “Higher education has given me my humanity back.”, show that there is a lot of hope for the programs future as long as they can keep the grants and funding coming they will be able to continue it.