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Rikers Island Jail Football Program

Connie gets Desperate as Coaching Positions Remain Vacant

(April 24th, 2012) After working long hours, and calling a multitude of qualified coaches, Connie Jenkins officially quit searching for outside talent and began recruiting friends and jail staff to serve as coaches and trainers.

While she was definitely disgusted by the ignorance of the people she had reached out to, she realized that hiring friends and staff that had worked hard with her and her late husband “The Warden” wasn’t too far off what he would’ve wanted.

She smiled, and shed a tear as she looked over the beautiful dome, and dialed up her first friend, Claude Newman….