Every Wednesday, around 25 of Stateville Correctional Center inmates, who are serving life sentences, attend the class Life Transformation through Communication. That class has spawned a play about life inside Stateville, conceived and written by the inmates called A Day at Stateville.

Former inmate and current actor and discussion leader, Melvin Haywood, and attorney Jim Chapman, a volunteer teacher at the Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet, discuss the project.

Music Button: Thievery Corporation, “Liberation Front”, from the CD The Richest Man in Babylon, (ESL records)

Event:
A Day at Stateville Reading and Intergenerational Conversation
Tonight, July 21 at 5:30
Southwest Youth Collaborative, 6400 S. Kedzie Ave.

It’s part of the Illinois Humanities Council’s Public Square Programming. It will also be recorded for WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified.