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| Jail Helps Man Get Art Noticed |
| By post-gazette.com |
| Published: 06/28/2010 |
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Daniel Montano leads the life of a prisoner four nights a week, sleeping and checking out in the morning. Living in pre-release custody of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and hoping to be paroled, "there is no room for any error," he said. That, of course, also means no more graffiti. The most prolific tagger in the city's history -- police estimated he caused more than $700,000 in damage to 125 property owners over several years -- has been on pre-release from a 21/2-to-5 year sentence since last August. He spends his three free nights with his sister in Highland Park. He has been working as a dishwasher, doing scenic paintings for movies and preparing works for an art show, "Invisible Walls, Invisible Children," which opens July 9 at Gallery 4, 206 S. Highland Ave., Shadyside. Read More. |
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