Welcome to Naples. Meet Your Ex-Con Tour Guide.
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 07.06.09 | 12:27 PM ET
As Elisabetta Provoledo writes, “It seemed like a great idea at the time: hire ex-convicts to escort tourists through seedy Neapolitan streets. Who better to explain to the uninitiated the potential dangers lying in wait?” Alas, as she reports in the New York Times, the “Escodentro Project” has hit a rough patch.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Grizzly Bear Mom 07.07.09 | 9:33 AM ET
If they are EX-cons, they already paid their debt to society. Leave them alone so they can earn an honest living. The police have no right to harass them, and the politicians have no right to criticize them.
Ling 07.07.09 | 9:54 AM ET
From what I read in the article, everybody’s rooting for them to fail. First time one of the ex-cons does something which he shouldn’t, that’ll be teh end of the program. It’s simply setting up the poor chaps for failure. Integration for ex-cons doesn’t mena bunch them all together. Means that they should be able to live normal lives like everyone else. If all the ex-cons are tourist guides, that’s not a normal life.