
Author Archives: GOSO Staff


Retired Executive Helps Inmates Stay Out of Jail
Mark Goldsmith founded Getting Out and Staying Out six years ago. The nonprofit has helped some 1,500 young men incarcerated at Rikers Island prison chart new lives.

VIDEO: Mutual of America’s Tribute to Getting Out and Staying Out (GOSO)
Mutual of America sponsored and produced this video highlighting the great work Getting Out and Staying Out is doing with justice-involved young men in New

VIDEO: Mayor Michael Bloomberg Congratulates Mark Goldsmith, GOSO’s CEO
Mayor Michael Bloomberg Congratulates Mark Goldsmith, Getting Out and Staying Out’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Mark Goldsmith, on the great work GOSO is doing

Executives Teach Inmates How to Be Employees
Mark Goldsmith didn’t expect to go to jail when he volunteered to be “principal for a day” at a New York City school. But after requesting a “tough school,” he was assigned to Horizon Academy, a high school for inmates ages 18 to 24 at Rikers Island prison.

VIDEO: Mark Goldsmith, CEO of Getting Out and Staying Out, Wins The 2008 Purpose Prize
Civic Ventures, a national think tank awarded Mark Goldsmith, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Getting Out and Staying Out, the 2008 Purpose Prize.

Big Leap from Jail to Jobs

Doing Business at Rikers Island

Former Inmate Has All the Ingredients for Success

Getting Out and Staying Out: A Passion for Success
If there is anyone who should look and feel out of place in the corridors of Riker’s Island, it is Mark Goldsmith. A retired cosmetics executive who once headed up Yves St. Laurent in the United States, Goldsmith carries himself with an easy going polish and self assurance that seems more appropriate for lunch at the Four Seasons. Yet, Goldsmith has found himself a new home.