Learning life skills in Deer Lodge, Montana
| September 19, 2007 |  View for printing |
Chad Matt-feldt’s tattooed forearm contrasts with his stark white homework assignment recently.
With a mouse click, Matthew Hoffman proudly revealed his daughter’s college savings plan.
“If I put $200 a month into an 8.5 percent ING, in 14 years I’ll have $72,000,” said Hoffman, 27, sounding like any forward- thinking father as he explained an Excel spreadsheet.
But the standard-issue blue pullover and the razor wire around his living quarters separate him from other concerned dads.
Hoffman is an inmate at Montana State Prison serving a sentence for a drug conviction in Great Falls. He is also a student in the prison’s Life Skills class, which offers computer, job interview and communication training.
By Erin Nicholes, of The Montana Standard
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