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| ‘They are still so broken…’: One Woman’s Crusade to Turn Incarcerated Boys into Good Men |
| By /jjie.org - Ryan Schill |
| Published: 03/25/2013 |
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SPARTA, Ga.––Prisons are not inviting places. At their worst, they are a place of sorrow. At their best, prisons are a place to wait out the dull, slow passage of time. Prisons are not naturally a place of hope. Hancock State Prison, a concrete outpost in the sparsely-populated, wooded expanse of east-central Georgia, is no different. There is no artistry in the prison’s architecture, only bland walls interrupted by few windows or other signs of the paused lives on the inside. Dirt tracks and endless barbed wire topping miles and miles of perimeter fence surround everything. Every 30 seconds a patrol car completes another loop around the perimeter. Acres of ground are cleared outside the fence, leaving only dirt, patches of grass and no place to hide. Standing just outside the heavy security gate, as the sun shines uselessly down on the prison, Peggy Lieurance waits, happy and beaming. She is small and silver-haired, and for seven years she has passed through this checkpoint so she can teach inmates how to live, and stay living, on the outside. But more importantly, she says, she shows these young adults imprisoned as teens how to be good men. Read More. |
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