Golden State Warriors teach inmates to become basketball coaches [Video]

The Golden State Warriors announced a new project this week designed to help inmates at California State Prison, Solano. It is called the Twinning Project. A nonprofit in England started it five years ago. It paired Premier League Soccer teams with local prisons to teach inmates how to become soccer coaches. Now, for the first time, it expanded to basketball by teaming up with the Golden State Warriors and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to help inmates at the Solano prison. “The delivery of a program of this nature does a lot for the mental and physical well-being,” said Hilton Freund, CEO of the Twinning Project. “We start to see improved relationships with the prisoners and their fellow inmates and improved relationships with prison staff.”Over a dozen inmates were selected for this program. It is a six-week camp where coaches from the Warriors Basketball Academy and the Positive …