UMass program gets crime-council honor

DARTMOUTH – A University of Massachusetts Dartmouth program meant to provide alternatives to incarceration has received the John R. Manson-Carl Robinson Award.
Given on Sept. 30, during the New England Council on Crime and Delinquency’s 75th Annual Training Institute, the award is presented to an individual, group or agency that has made a significant contribution to the field of criminal justice within the New England system.
UMass Dartmouth English professor Robert Waxler accepted the award on behalf of Changing Lives through Literature, an ongoing program that began in 1991. Waxler, Judge Robert Kane, and Wayne St. Pierre, a New Bedford District Court probation officer, initiated the first program at UMass Dartmouth. •