A couple of years ago, a unique off Broadway production played to sold out audiences night after night. The authors? Inmates at a maximum security prison in New Jersey. Chris Hedges, a Presbyterian minister and Pulitzer Prize winning former correspondent for the New York Times, has a new book (Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison), detailing the story of how the men he taught drama to behind bars became playwrights telling deeply personal stories. What can we learn about the US prison system, American society, and how not to judge people by their labels?

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