Through the Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, Stateville Correctional Center inmates find creative ways to serve out their sentences.
by Jake Malooley
The other day Damon Locks was at Stateville Correctional Center in suburban Crest Hill, where he teaches art to inmates, when one of the prison's guards wandered into his classroom. Each of Locks's 11 students at the all-male maximum-security facility had spent the semester making brief animations with pencils and tracing paper—among the few art supplies allowed in the jail—and the curious guard was trying to get a sneak peek.…[ Read more ]