Ain’t finished yet
on April 21st, 2009 at 8:50 am
(USA Today) This is Tony Dungy’s new world, the one he has embraced since walking away from cheering crowds, a salary that exceeded $5 million a year and a team that was equipped for another Super Bowl run.
These are the players Dungy, 53, now seeks to motivate and help improve: men like the 500 or so felons here at the Hardee Correctional Institutition, who sat 10-deep on the grass in neat rows for an upbeat program with the flavor of a religious revival — complete with stirring rhythms provided by the prison band and gospel singers.
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The audience at the optional meeting made up about one-third of the inmates at Hardee, a prison southeast of Tampa where the population ranges in age from 19 to 77. The average sentence here is 29 years; the population includes inmates convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon and child abuse. Nearly 600 of the inmates are serving life terms.
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George “Big Country” Edmonds, serving a life sentence for murder, got Dungy’s autograph.
“I’ve got something to talk about for a long time,” Edmonds said. “Sometimes when people come in, they won’t even shake your hand. But he’s out here in the middle of us.” (more…)
Check out his website where he has a whole line of podcasts.
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