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| Wakulla inmates perform in Behind the Wire choir |
| By tallahassee.com- Ryan Dailey |
| Published: 07/14/2015 |
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Inmates stomped their feet and clapped along to Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" Monday at Wakulla Correctional Institute, with raucous whooping and hollering. The music, however, wasn't coming from a six-string wielding rock star with a southern growl but rather the elegantly-harmonized voices of inmates. Inmate Robert McKinney welcomed a crowd of fellow inmates, prison administration and visitors to the facility's Visitor Park. In addition to thanking all those in attendance, McKinney closed his speech with a quote: "The measure of a man or woman is never what they have, it's how they use it." McKinney and other participants in the Wakulla Work Camp's Music Therapy Program had been using their natural musical abilities, some refined and some less polished, rehearsing for three months in preparation for Monday's lively choral performance. Read More. |
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