Ex-Con Tour Guides

If you’re lost in Naples, look for the helpful guides in the yellow vests. They can reorient you, escort you through dodgy neighborhoods and advise you on foiling pickpockets. What gives their advice such authority is that they were once criminals themselves.

The Naples government wanted to help ex-cons start new lives through a pilot program called Esco-Dentro, or Exit-Inside, that runs through November.  For more info, click on the link.

Photo by Angelica Marin, The Global Post

“Naples is beautiful. We want to help change its bad reputation of crime,” said former convict Antonio Solla. “And who better to know how criminals work than former criminals?”

Link – via globalpost

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.