Can you be a human being after prison?
The If Project, helping to change the lives of women offenders and at-risk youth, co-sponsored a special preview of Seattle Public Theater's 'This Wide Night' behind prison walls.
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This moving play opens next week at Seattle Public Theatre at the Bathhouse, under the smart, crisply unsentimental orchestration of director Sheila Daniels. The often comic repartee of a pair of outcasts in bleak surroundings, waiting for something definitive and life-changing to happen and falling into silences that threaten to open up a vast and terrifying emptiness, invites comparisons with Beckett. But the erratic current that flows between the women, driving them apart when it doesn't sweep them into collisions, is warm. The disreputable, deadpan wit of Lorraine (played by Christina Mastin) is laced with affection, and Marie (Emily Chisholm) embodies both frozen trauma and fullness of soul.
If you go: This Wide Night has its West Coast premiere at Seattle Public Theater at the Bathhouse on Green Lake, May 18-June 10. There will be special post-performance Talk Backs with The If Project and St. Vincent De Paul on May 18, May 31, and June 3, and Talk Backs with director and cast following the shows on May 26, 27, and 31. Tickets here; $20-29 for adults; discounts for seniors and youth (65 and older; under 25).
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Posted Wed, May 9, 6:53 p.m. Inappropriate
Our prison/punishment/drug contorl system is much more than totally broken. The cost is prohibitive, minority rights are ignored and the inmates are constantly recyled.
The first reason to have this sort of system is to protect society from those that would harm others. After that everything should be concentrated on schooling and training to return the miscreants to society as soon as possible. That would be the best result for society. An inmate who is considered rehabilitated should be given a parole/job for a year or two in an area away from the place he was sent to prison.
Along these lines, we should consider that younger male offenders (under 25)should be considered as less than adults in the terms of their punishment,
This may no seem harsh enough but can we maintain the alternative insofar as cost is concerned? Can we keep drug offenders in jail when this is a medical problem?
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