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by Treacy Ziegler This post is written in installments exploring what is understood as kindness in prison. In writing this post, I asked prisoners across the United States to share their experiences of kindness in prison. Kindness makes you idle, worse, unnatural. Douglas Oliver Richie is a student in my …
Continue reading The Incarceration of Kindness – Installment 1
by Kenneth E. Hartman As I sit in the audience of assembled artists and corrections officials, writers and performers, along with a smattering of fellow returned citizens, I reflect on the magical nature of my own journey to this meeting, provoked to reverie by a tale of emotional torture and abuse told by a gentle, …
Continue reading It’s a start, but we’ve got a ways to go, still
by Treacy Ziegler About the guest blogger: Treacy Ziegler has been an exhibiting artist for the past 23 years. She studied painting and printmaking for four years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. As a student she was awarded a J. Henry Scheidt Traveling Scholarship. Before studying art at PAFA, Ziegler received a Master …