"Sing Sing" Puts a Prison Theatre Program in the Spotlight
Briefly

The play is 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' and the actors, all men, are participants in a program called Rehabilitation Through the Arts, or R.T.A. For them, the chance to wear glittering costumes and ride the giddy waves of Shakespeare's verse promises a few hours of liberation.
The walls of Divine G's cell, covered with documents, photographs, and sticky notes, are evidence of a term spent in thrall to the written word. While serving out his sentence-twenty-five years to life for a murder that he didn't commit-Divine G has devoted much of his time to studying law, researching his case and those of other incarcerated men.
Read at The New Yorker
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