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Higher Love – formerly Timothy’s Gift
Visit Timothy’s Gift FB Post From Their Visit to GEO Second Chance Center Our first day at South Bay Correctional Facility was incredible! The inmates spent weeks creating a Winter Wonderland using old mattress stuffing and handmade paper snowflakes. Their custom artwork was painted by those same men and they even let us keep the beautiful…
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How Some San Quentin Inmates Are Using Film to Hold Themselves Accountable
FirstWatch would lead to better relationships with the people who are still on the outside,” such as friends and family members. San Quentin appears to take these benefits seriously. The prison is a hub of media-making. Its media center turns out a glossy magazine called Wall City, the San Quentin News, a closed-circuit news channel, the beloved podcast “Ear…
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Meet the Media Giant Housed Inside a Missouri Prison
Tucked into two storage rooms in the gym of Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri, a small group of prisoners maintains a closed-circuit TV network that delivers bespoke television programming to ERDCC’s roughly 2,700 residents. The smaller of these concrete rooms contains two folding tables, three office chairs and three desktop…