Prison Performing Arts: The Voice Within

[Available currently on Tubi, Peacock, and Roku.] Lisa Rhoden Boyd's engaging, powerful, uplifting, insightful, inspirational, 82-minute, 2019 documentary in which an eclectic group of inmates (Laura Hulsey, Autumn Smith, Amy Sherrill, LaWanda Jackson, Patty Prewitt, Tessa Van Vlerah, Bethany Johnson, Lauren Banks, Angie Ogle, Erica Nowden, Cassie Adams, Rachel Staudte, Janet Baiter-Bohn, Shenna Benson, and Heather Nelson) at a prison in Vandalia, Mo., attend a groundbreaking Prison Performing Arts (PPA) workshop founded by Agnes Wilcox during which they candidly discuss their life and incarceration and act in the Run on Sentence by playwright Stacie Lentz based on their varied life experiences and directed by Christopher Limber and includes commentary by inmate mothers Martha Bradshaw, Valeritta Jackson, Paige Detering, Jane Prewitt, and Sarah Hulsey.
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