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ANN ARBOR: U of M-based Prison Creative Arts Project enters 21st year

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

ANN ARBOR: U of M-based Prison Creative Arts Project enters 21st year Sunday, September 5, 2010 By Donna Iadipaolo, Special Writer In the 1980s, University of Michigan professor William "Buzz" Alexander introduced a powerful theater exercise to Peruvian shanty-town peasants. In 1990, he and two of his U of M guerilla theater students conducted that same exercise with two women prisoners at Florence Crane Correctional Facility in Coldwater. Alexander identifies this exercise as a pivotal point in the start of PCAP, the Prison Creative Arts Project, having since performed 528 plays, 200 readings, and countless workshops in Michigan prisons, juvenile facilities and urban highs schools. The professor and two undergraduates directed the two women, who had been sentenced to life terms, to go in the corner and write questions for them during that moment in 1990 at Florence Crane...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 06, 2010 (boomark / email).