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Braille serves as pathway for Scotland inmates
By laurinburgexchange.com- Cory Lavalette
Published: 01/31/2017

WAGRAM — Malcolm Pfeiffer-El grew up speaking both English and German and has since learned two more languages. The 40-year-old’s fourth language and his love for music led him to being the 51st person to be certified by the Library of Congress in Braille Music transcription.

Pfeiffer-El, Offender No. 0555827, is serving life in prison at Scotland Correctional Institution in Laurinburg for the first-degree murder of Christopher Wayne McLamb in Benson on Dec. 12, 1996.

“When I arrived here at this institution, I was housed with some guys who were in the Braille program,” Pfeiffer-El said. “And I was just interested in the Braille program because I’ve seen it as an opportunity to learn something that I can use when I get out in society.”

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