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Pittsburgh Library Displays Art From Inmates
By nbcphiladelphia.com- Diane Nelson Jones
Published: 11/24/2014

Last February, Mary Carey received a letter at her job in Braddock's Carnegie Library from a man serving a life sentence at the State Correctional Institution in LaBelle, Fayette County.

He proposed organizing an exhibit of his fellow prisoners' artwork as a contribution to the library's art lending program.

In his letter, Richard Guy, previously of Wilkinsburg, mentioned that he had read about the program and "mentioned it to a couple of my fellow inmates who are very good artists. My idea is to give these guys an avenue of creativity and to help the library out."

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