Actors Gang Prison Project Meets with U.S. Attorney General

Actors Gang Artistic Director, Tim Robbins, and Director of Outreach, Sabra Williams were invited to Washington to meet with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. The discussion revolved around how to make arts education part of a transformed and transformational approach to corrections.

Chris Hedges: The Play’s the Thing - Truthdig

I began teaching a class of 28 prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey during the first week of September. My last class meeting was Friday. The course revolved around plays by August Wilson, James Baldwin, John Herbert, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Miguel Piñero, Amiri Baraka and other playwrights who examine and give expression to the realities of America’s black underclass as well as the prison culture. We also read Michelle Alexander’s important book “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.” Each week the students were required to write dramatic scenes based on their experiences in and out of prison. 
                                                                                                           ~ Chris Hedges, 12-15-13


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