Silbert on the Goals of Delancey Street’s Training Schools:

“Most of our training schools… the first reason of their existence is to teach our people to interact positively with people they have never interacted with, regular straight middle class America, people they are terrified of, and secondly to teach regular straight middle class America that this is what a dope fiend ex-convict who you think should be either put away for the rest of his life or killed, this is what he can change and become.”

via Berkeley Law – The Criminal Justice Conversations Podcast with David Onek.