influential age. we think by having officers that want to work with the youth and give them vocational programs, resume writing, computer graphics training, meditation, believe it or not, these kids go to meditation classes. this is the favorite thing they do, and we are seeing phenomenal results. >> while the program is still too new to measure long term effectiveness corrections staff say they are seeing fewer of the participants return to jail or prison compared to the national average. early on, one of demarco's biggest challenges is finding officers willing to work intimately with inmates. >> a lot of older staff here 15, 20, 25 years here, they were trained and taught to do something a certain way. that was to warehouse prisoners. we don't do anything for them. when their time is up you let them go. that was the way things were done. when i came here i wanted to change the culture. we got kind of lucky because we had a lot of people eligible to retire and we hired a lot of...