When thinking of college, there are expectations of what we think it will bring: connections to the job force, knowledge of something we are passionate about or a community – but sometimes that could be challenging to do. The college experience could be even more daunting when carrying a formerly incarcerated past. The judgment the title might bring is in itself something to endure. “They’re highly intelligent people who just made a wrong turn or were given a bad situation or just was born in the wrong neighborhood or being in the wrong skin color. That simple,” said Gabriel Singer, who is a 44-year-old Project Rebound student. “A lot of times, it’s just a series of bad choices and then all of a sudden you’re sitting there in the cell and you’re like, ‘How the hell did this happen?’ Then either you climb out or you don’t.” Singer was arrested for murder in 2007, but he was found guilty of aiding and abetting voluntary manslaughter. “They were basically trying to find a way to convic...