So. Shock horror, people remain people, even when they are criminals, even when they are imprisoned. The dude who wrote the above calls himself 'X-Ray Robinson' and is in prison in America. He's alive, and thinking, and growing, as are all prisoners. It's so easy to assume that they're just gone...dealt with, done and dusted. I'm not yet sure how I feel about criminals as a general class, but I'm not willing to assume that they're all empty, and I'm not willing to accept that prison is the only, or even best solution to crime.
Between the Bars are aiming to help prisoners create non-criminal identities, to improve prisoner's lives and reduce recidivism. Sounds like a pretty good cause if you ask me.
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