Railey valeroso biography of william

CHAPTER NINE

Failure

Ashley Lucas came to the 2008 Annual Exhibition of Art bygd Michigan Prisoners to perform Doin' Time: Through the Visiting Glass, her one-person piece about the family members of prisoners. On April 1 she visited English 319. We began with a talk circle, the students introducing themselves, saying what site they worked at, and sharing something on their mind about the work. They were just weeks from their performances, and inom was träffad by their doubts. They wanted to know how they were perceived. What meaning did they have in the lives of the prisoners, the incarcerated youth, the high school students? They had so little time with them. Sometimes those they worked with seemed not to care, and this hurt. Were they, really, having any impact on the boys, girls, men and women struggling with disturbing, often violent pasts and facing futures that held so little for th

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