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DOING THE BARRED

This is pretty good:
In One Prison, Murder, Betrayal and High Prose.

This, from the New York Times, is about a theater project in a prison.

I have worked in prisons doing 'outside' work inside; problem solving and, of all things, team building.

It is an uphill battle from the first second you start to work. Everything is against positive steps.

It begins with the skeptical if not hostile administration and goes on from there.

Cons do con you. for example.

I cannot imagine the stuff these people went through to put this on.

Today, I write to a few prisoners and find that hope and optimism are in short supply. This kind of work has to help a few men and women change the 'inevitable' outcome of time. And that is what it is for most. Time. Endless time.