For the past decade, veteran actor John Leguizamo has been active in an anti-recidivism program for young men at Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York City so he decided to do a show for 400.
m Actor John Leguizamo released a new special on various streaming services, "John Leguizamo Live at Rikers," touching on both his stage shows and discussions with men at the Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York City. Leguizamo has been active in an anti-recidivism program for young men at the facility for the past decade. Speaking with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Leguizamo said that he could relate to nearly going down the same path the men he performed for had. "Early in my life, I was heading the wrong way. I was a problem child," Leguizamo said. "I wanted to bring them something nobody else has. People don t come to Rikers to perform for them. I wanted to bring them entertainment." Leguizamo has been working with men enrolled in the Getting Out and Staying Out, or GOSO, classes in the past as he taught them acting classes and how to create one-man shows. Performing a modified version of his one-man Broadway show "Ghetto Klown,&quo
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