Daily News | In a prison far from the beach, these men are building lifeguard stands
At top right is Mark Andres, carpentry instructor working with “Incarcerated Persons” William Beam and Henry Hernandez. These men are incarcerated at Bayside State Prison in Leesburg, NJ and participating in the Deptcor Carpentry Shop Vocational Training Program. These men are working on a lifeguard stand to be used on New Jersey beaches. Photograph taken on Monday, June 5, 2023.LEESBURG, N.J.
Hernandez built fish ponds in Bergen County before he was sentenced to prison for an assault. He’s appreciative of the skills he’s learning in the state program known as DeptCor, and proud that his work will travel from the prison yard to its beautiful, and public, setting on the beach.His release date is April 26, 2024 , so it’ll be next summer, Hernandez says, before he can take his children, ages 20, 19, 16, 10, and 5, to show them his handiwork.
Nearby, William Beam, 45, of Newark, says he is 28 years into a 50-year sentence for murder that granted parole eligibility at 30 years. He’s headed for a halfway house soon, he says, and upon release, plans to go to Miami to work on deep sea fishing boats. His own memories of the beach are mostly from Miami and other parts of Florida, he says, still vivid from decades ago. “Volleyball, fishing, crabbing, catching whiting,” he said. “I did a lot of things. Deep sea fishing.”
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