Posts Tagged ‘Bedford Hills Correctional Facility’
What I Want My Words To Do To You
What I Want My Words To Do To You offers an unprecedented look into the minds and hearts of women inmates of New York’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. The film goes inside a writing workshop led by playwright Eve Ensler, consisting of 15 women, most of whom were convicted of murder. Through a series of exercises and discussions, the women, delve into and expose their most terrifying realities as they grapple with the nature of their crimes and culpability.
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Blog Talk Radio – Children’s Center in Prison
Bedford Hills Correctional Facility has a children’s center, set up so women prisoners can interact with their children. This episode of Blog Talk Radio’s Family Life Behind Bars station interviews Bobby Blanchard, the Director of The Children’s Center at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.
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College Graduations in Prison
Cathy Watkins celebrated her college graduation this week. She is 41 years old and an inmate at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. In the prison she gave the valedictorian speech: “Even though these walls can restrict our physical movement, they cannot restrict our imagination, nor our connection to the outside world.”
Read the full New York Times article about education in prison here.
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