Prisoners Lose their Freedom but Not Their Creativity

If you watch a lot of reality TV or spend time on the Discovery Channel, History Channel, and the like, from time to time you will see programs about prisons and prisoners. For sensationalism purposes the programs tend to focus on the worst of the worst. In the United States there are 2.1 million people in prisons. More than there are in China or any other country in the world.

These men and women lose their freedom once they enter prison but they don't lose their creativity. In Little Rock, Arkansas, this Saturday, July 18th, an art auction is taking place. What is unusual about this art auction is that all the works of art have been created by prisoners who are members of a program called InnerChange Freedom Initiative. http.web.me.com/ghartigan/IFI_Artwork. The prisoners have donated their works of art to be auctioned with all of the proceeds going to the IFI program to ensure that it is kept going. Take a look at the link fort the art show and see what I mean when I say that they lose their freedom in prison but they don't lose their creativity.