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Chamber music program encourages creativity among inmates
By wistv.com- Renee Standera
Published: 04/11/2014

"I would see the music in the hymnal and I didn't know what all those squiggly lines were. If they can teach me how to read music, they can teach anybody."

Dogs, chess, beekeeping and now classical music. Inmates at Lee Correctional Institution who earn the privilege through good behavior are learning things that can enrich anyone's life, even if the rest of that life will be spent locked up.

"I put myself here," said an inmate named Randy, who's serving life without parole for a murder conviction. "I'm responsible for the actions that I took that got me here. I'm guilty. I'm paying man's price for what I did. But I'm at peace with myself. For the first time since 1977, I can relax."

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