WATCH: Day in & Day Out — As Illinois spends $900 million on new prisons, people coming home invest in art instead
By Morgan Norris Medill Reports Henry Broomfield spent 26 years inside Stateville Correctional Center, where, according to the John Howard Association, inmates lived with hazardous water and falling ceilings. Now free, he and others are turning to art to rebuild their lives, even as the state invests $900 million in new prisons the community says it doesn’t want. TRANSCRIPT: HENRY BROOMFIELD: This a poem I wrote while I was in prison. AUDIO: Now, this may […]