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Incarcerated people can often feel forgotten by the world outside. A documentary film that screens at the St. Louis International Film Festival on…
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In 'Hip Hop Hamlet,' women prisoners express their humanity: 'I didn't feel like I was incarcerated'It’s opening night for “Hip Hop Hamlet” and more than 200 women dressed in baggy, khaki-colored clothes have packed into the gymnasium at the women’s…
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A creative collaboration between a nationally known playwright and a group of women incarcerated in Vandalia, Missouri, is bringing new voices and stories…
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St. Louis’ Prison Performing Arts serves 1,000 inmates every year, some as actors, others as audience members. But leaving prison doesn’t have to mean…
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Updated September 1 with St. Louis on the Air remembrance –On Friday’s St. Louis on the Air, host Don Marsh discussed the life and legacy of Agnes Wilcox,…
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Gun violence is the result of a series of choices, some of them spur-of-the-moment, others made after much consideration.The vast majority of men and…
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A St. Louis-based organization called Prison Performing Arts (PPA) is taking a fresh approach in its 27-year-old effort to turn inmates into actors.The…
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For many who have died, the “good family man” description is draped upon them like an embroidered pall, often as much in the interest of being nice and…
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Agnes Wilcox founded Prison Performing Arts 23 years ago. Last year, she retired as director of the organization, which involves inmates and former…
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For 22 years, a St. Louis organization has helped prisoners and youthful detainees project words like "thee" and "thou" and practice pliés and arabesques.…