The Redeeming Time Project uses Shakespeare to effect positive change for incarcerated & formerly incarcerated folx. Delivering programming in 2 men's prisons.
I was today years old when I learned that the phrase, "That takes the cake," comes from the Cake Walk, of whom Aida Overton Walker was the queen in the early 20th C.
Around 290 federal prisoners have died from COVID-19 in two years, officials say — almost certainly an undercount.
Despite the Federal Bureau of Prisons saying it has a plan to keep the virus in check, an @NPR analysis suggests a far different story. https://t.co/P9NSl8tyqD
Two years ago today, we performed in the multipurpose room at Moose Lake. On March 9th, we performed for families in the visiting room (shown here). Then everything shut down.
#artsincorrections#secondchances
"I feel a giant lump in my throat of suppressed desire and unspoken fury, of woman love and woman rage"
A powerful account of what it feels like to have the basic human needs of sex and desire criminalised in prison.
Read: https://t.co/QsdeKeslNo
"Because of stigma and misguided laws from the “tough-on-crime” era, job seekers with criminal records — no matter how old the offense — face numerous hurdles to being hired." https://t.co/IkmouqdHLJ
When I asked someone who was formerly incarcerated in Louisiana about what David Wade is like he said to "imagine a place so bad it’s a credible threat to guys at Angola."
I see a lot of posts about 'free' this person, 'free' that person. How about we free the scores of black and brown people locked up for years for petty drug possession and the like?
RTA alumna Dunasha Payne reads a poem by an RTA member at Bedford Hills - part of a new video series of poetry readings at various locations in Westchester. Thank you @RTA_ARTS teaching artist Pamela Hart, @ArtsWestchester & @KatonahMuseum !
https://t.co/DPUqZo7sTJ
Please sign this petition to create access to educational opportunities for folx who are living on death row. This denial of access is unjust. https://t.co/l1gmAHYiJx
We cannot honestly address US public health, pandemic preparedness, or biosecurity without confronting how our shameful system of mass incarceration––25% of world's incarcerated with only 4% of global population––undermines health & safety for everyone.
https://t.co/wKtUakiinz
@DarrenRaymond describes his route to Shakespeare - ‘I was looking for identity, love, belonging and then I saw the way that Shakespeare allowed these issues to be voiced by Othello’. Such a moving story about the founding of @InterTheatre#ShaxBBA@ShakesInstitute
'Shakespeare gives people ideas, inspiration and hope. Prisoners aren’t going to get through their sentences without hope’. @Francesca_PET, Head of Policy, Prisoners’ Education Trust, speaking at Shakespeare Beyond Borders with our own @rm_mackenzie. @HMPHewellGov #sbba