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NH: Students and prisoners prodcue a play

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Students and inmates produce play By Ann Baum, The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth Published on Friday, August 13, 2010 (Go to the URL below for a great picture!) Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, seven of the 14 students enrolled in College Course 12 venture down Interstate 91 to the Sullivan County House of Corrections in Unity, N.H., where they collaborate with female inmates to produce a play that will be performed at the end of the term. The experience encourages students and inmates to recognize their shared fundamental human qualities, according to Ivy Schweitzer, the course?s professor. These biweekly trips are part of the class ?Inside Out: Prison, Women and Performance,? which is taught by Schweitzer and Pati Hernandez, founder of ?Telling My Story,? a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing theater to prisons...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).