This video was filmed last year when I began a collaboration with artist/educator Vito Minoia to bring CLTL to Italy. Take a look at why this program works and what people in prison and educators and prison staff say about their experience doing a Changing Lives through Literature program in Pesaro Prison in Italy. For more info of the conference, go here.
Please see my newest article at DigBoston: KOONCE MAKES “COMPELLING” CASE IN 5-PLUS HOUR COMMUTATION HEARING.
Photo of Koonce and his son, Thomas Andrews at MCI Norfolk (2012) via Koonce family
The article begins:
“On Tuesday, Oct. 27, Massachusetts held its second commutation hearing for life-sentenced prisoner Thomas Koonce, who was denied a commutation by then-Gov. Deval Patrick’s Advisory Board of Pardons in 2010. No one serving a life without parole sentence has been granted a commutation since 1997.” More
“COMPELLING” CASE IN 5-PLUS HOUR COMMUTATION HEARING Read Post »
Please see my newest article in DIGBoston:
“While members of the public can listen in on this hearing for Thomas Koonce without seeing it, they are unable to record the hearing” MORE
MASS TO HOLD FIRST COMMUTATION HEARING IN 10 YEARS, BUT PRESS AND PUBLIC CAN’T WATCH Read Post »
Honored to be interviewed on October 9th and talked a lot about juvenile justice and Boy With A Knife but also about the state of injustice in this country in a more global sense. Thanks Daren Jaime
“‘Stop profiting off our pain’: Hundreds rally to support bill eliminating charges for prison phone calls”
