Byline: Kathleen Dooley Staff writer
Gail Hutchins Brand is a firm believer in education as an important link to reducing the high rate of recidivism - inmates returning to a life of crime after their release from jail.
She is one of two teachers in the Ballston Spa School District who travels each day to a unique classroom with unique students in the Saratoga County Correctional Facility.
"My students are awfully nice. They are in the classroom because they want to be here," said Brand, a petite woman with dark hair and eyes that sparkle with enthusiasm when she speaks of her work.
"Attendance is strictly voluntary. I try to say something positive to them every single day. They need that," she said. "This is a group that has the lowest self- esteem of anyone."
The presence of uniformed correction officers is obvious throughout …
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