Following commutation of his sentence, Giarratano was reassigned to the general prison population at Augusta Correctional Institution. There he set up a 14-week course at the prison on non-violence, with the help of columnist Colman McCarthy of the "Washington Post", who had founded the Center for Teaching Peace. NBC nightly news covered the non-violence program; it received donations, including a grant from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. The program was closed in 1995, due to "financial improprieties". The Department of Corrections later retracted the allegations as reported by the media. Giarrantano says that prison officials did not like it.