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MO: Momentous Event: Prisoners Organize the First Ever Seminar at a Prison with NAACP Convention-Goers and Members of the NAACP Prison Chapter

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

NAACP's prison branch in Cameron gets its wish to host conventioneers By Nadia Pflaum, Thu., Jul. 15 2010 ?On Saturday, 20-some NAACP convention-goers walked through the metal detectors at the maximum security prison in Cameron, Missouri, to participate in a historic event. After years of planning and pleading, prisoners with the NAACP Branch #4003 at the Crossroads Correctional Facility were granted permission to host a seminar at the prison as part of the civil rights group's 101st convention in Kansas City. Among the attendees: Effie Jones Bowers, a black student who desegregated Hall High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. "She has a thousand-watt smile," says Jon Marc Taylor, a Crossroads inmate and Branch #4003's convention and resolutions chairman...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 23, 2010 (boomark / email).