'Community' Takes Root Within Prison Walls

Summary


The old block of the state prison in Woods Run smells of urine. Prisoners live two to a cell, in cells stacked five tiers high.

A short walk across the yard, prisoners in a treatment program live isolated from those general population inmates in orderly pods. They have work tables to make motivational posters that hang on walls. One poster urges cleanliness with a hand-colored picture of a yellow rubber ducky.

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'Community' Takes Root Within Prison Walls

After closing the 126-year-old prison along the Ohio River for two years, the state reopened it in 2007, and a portion is being used to rehabilitate drug- and alcohol-addicted inmates who commi...

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