Anti-recidivist Guarantees Lifelong Freedom and Success

A Durham-based anti-recidivist guarantees 120 North Carolinian former prison inmates that he will teach and train them to break the crime habit, to earn an ever-free life and to achieve their crime and incarceration records into insignificance.

He said he will do it for free!

"You can't beat the cost," claimed Milton C. Jordan,Sr. a self-styled anti-recidivist who challenges anyone who has been incarcerated twice or more to learn how to stay out and succeed. "We need 120 formerly incarcerated individuals to attend our introductory teaching and training sessions in Durham on each of the four Saturdays in August and be a part of our our introductory sessions."

Jordan said that during the daylong sessions, he will introduce a five-year curriculum he calls the ASLAP strategy--Achieving Successful Living After Prison.

"Those who attend a workshop will have opportunity to qualify to receive the five-year curriculum free of charge," Jordan said. "We will be videotaping these sessions and they will become the introductory DVDs in the actual curriculum."

According to Jordan, the workshops will be held at St. Joseph AME Church, 2521 Fayetteville Street in Durham. Registration begins at 8am, and the workshop sessions begin at 9am. Members of Jordan's core team will attend these sessions and be available to answer questions. Jordan, an ordained minister, is a member of the St. Joseph ministerial staff.

Workshop topics include the following:

• 40 years of staying out successfully
• Stop! You do not have to do crime!
• Stop! You do not have to do time!
• Can you see vision and will you embrace the mission?
• Welcome to S.U.C.C.E.S.S.

"We we refer to successful living we include all aspects of life," Jordan explained. "We will help these men and women become successful personally and professionally. We will teach and train them to achieve financial success they could have never dreamed of doing crime. Yes, we can beat the drug game. We will not be teaching and training recidivists to become content with deadend jobs with very little future. Rather we will show them how to achieve complete financial freedom.

Despite the boldness of those claims, Jordan contends that he provides living proof that such accomplishments can be achieved. Jordan, who says he spent all but 22 months of the 1960s in North Carolina prisons, claims that anyone who commits, cooperates, communicates and contributes to the process can achieve these accomplishments. To validate his claims, Jordan points out that its difficult now to find any records of his incarcerations.

"In fact, I am researching newspaper files in Durham and Washington, North Carolina to find media reports of my crimes and subsequent incarcerations," Jordan said. "This indicates what I mean by achieving one's crime and prison records into insignificance."

Yet Jordan quickly points out that he means more than simply aging out of crime, or in other words, just getting to old to commit the offenses he did when he was younger. The Durham native, 68, says he was released from prison on Dec. 9, 1968, 43 years ago this year.

"During those four decades I have been a journalist and professional writer, including a five-year stint as a staff writer with the Charlotte Observer," Jordan said. "I taught for 10 years at Campbell University and nine years at North Carolina Central University. I began my collegiate teaching career in the Continuing Education program at Duke University. Those are significant accomplishments for a person with no college degree and a long crime and prison history."

Jordan said that anyone who wishes to attend the workshops should email him at teacher@kogekklesia.org

For additional information, you can visit the main website of Jordan's ministry: http://www.kogekklesia.org