Dave Durocher used to be behind bars; now he's in charge of The Other Side Academy, an organization dedicated to keeping people as far away from prison as possible.
SALT LAKE CITY — "Come on, would you like a tour?" Dave Durocher asks as he swivels in his office chair and springs up, not unlike a coiled python, ready to roll.
Of the felons who are referred here instead of prison and stay at least two years, 74% wind up sober, crime-free and gainfully employed. For those who stay three years, the success rate is 85%; for four years or longer, it's 95%.Equally remarkable, in eight years there have been no incidents of violence on the The Other Side Academy campus, no complaints from the neighbors, no petitions to shut the whole thing down. On the contrary.
But Durocher still had his wits. As he languished in jail awaiting trial, he employed the charisma that made him such a good drug dealer into an all-out lobbying campaign with the judge to instead of prison send him to Delancey Street, an alternative program designed to purge convicts of their addictions and straighten them out so they're no longer a danger to society.
That's when he met Joseph Grenny, the Salt Lake corporate trainer, author, entrepreneur and philanthropist who told him his plans to do a version of Delancey Street in Utah, but one that would be self-sustaining, with no strings attached to the government or any other outside entities. "They sat in front of me at Fleming's and I said I don't want either one of you to ask me a question. What's the genesis of thought behind this, what makes you think you can, and why would you want to, who's first?"
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