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KS: Actor tries to bring culture to inmates in Lansing prison?s mental health unit

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Sunday, Apr 20, 2008 Actor tries to bring culture to inmates in Lansing prison?s mental health unit By ROBERT TRUSSELL The Kansas City Star It?s another bone-chilling Tuesday afternoon. Sheets of snow sweep across I-70 as Heidi Stubblefield makes the weekly drive to the Lansing Correctional Institute, the biggest prison in Kansas. It looks like she?s driving into a blizzard. ?Unfortunately, the people I teach don?t get snow days,? Stubblefield deadpans as she motors west. Stubblefield, 29, is one of the best young actors in Kansas City. She?s energetic and serious, with a quirky sense of humor and hair that occasionally changes colors. Today she?s blond. Once a week she has to hold her own with a handful of inmates in Lansing?s mental health unit...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 20, 2008 (boomark / email).