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Hanna Satterlee 1. In the House In 2018, Queen City revelers welcomed a fresh New Years Eve custom: Highlight, a citywide celebration featuring artsy and family-friendly entertainment. Presenting organizations Burlington City Arts and Signal Kitchen Projects arent letting the COVID-19 pandemic keep them down. Theyve moved the event to the online platform Run the World, where viewers  can toggle between digital stages to ring in the new year with m...

Individuals incarcerated in S.C. Department of Corrections facilities will soon be able to receive bachelor’s degrees at no cost through a historic partnership with Claflin University. In April 2020, Claflin University was selected as a U.S. Department of Education Second Chance Pell Experimental Site, which continues an initiative that began under President Barack Obama to help incarcerated individuals earn university credentials. Healthy Routines, a community-based nonprofit located in C...

Minute. and now here they were in their mid 40s still telling anybody and everybody including us that they didnt kill old man bob. >> i just walk with the faith and i was just like this is not the end. >> the brothers had turned down any and all deals determined instead to clear their name. they joined every prison program, took every class they could to improve themselves. >> we always took any kind of programs they had to offer. and just held our heads up. >> after 22 years even their family h...

Normally you dont pet a service dog because they are working but valerie said its okay because technically sully is not walking. sully will soon go to the walter read hospital in washington, d.c. where his services will continue helping more veterans. hes two and a half years old, so hes got a lot of contributions to make in the future. thank you for all you do. >> thank you. >> and its incredible. >> sully was actually trained initially by prisoners, is that right? >> yeah. >> in our prison pro...

>> for some inmates sny is freedom. the iyp is a small taste of whats to come. after over a decade in the shu, inmate angel chaves looks forward to a more interactive prison program. >> i feel like i got let down by the familia. the situation was, i was doing time for the familia. ive asked for assistance. im not going to specify what assistance. i asked for assistance to handle business for me because i was in the business for them. >> sure. >> and they never came through although they said the...

And what the cia did in response to that suddenly growing scrutiny on their previously secret torture and prison program, the action the cia took that week when all of the sudden the pressure was publicly on them, we wouldnt learn what they did for another two years. >> yesterday we learned that when cia interrogators used waterboarding to question al qaeda operatives, some of it was apparently videotaped. but those videotapes were apparently destroyed two years ago. the problem here is waterboa...

And it turned out to be the beginning of a week, one week of really intense pressure on the cia on that issue. i mean, there is that jaw-dropping revelation theyve been running a network of secret prisons. the senate that week took up a proposal to create a commission like the 9/11 commission to look at what the cia had been doing to people in these prisons. that same week the judge in the case of an accused conspirator for 9/11 ordered the cia to turn over any videotapes or audio tapes of their...

There jinxster. >> he was known for his constant companion jinxster the cat he was allowed to adopt through a special prison program. >> trying to make a swimming pool in here. >> he was also known for his offbeat sense of humor. >> its a bird, its a plane now its the biobucket man. to the bat cave. >> three years later, when we returned to indiana to shoot our extended stay series at the wabash valley correctional facility, we were surprised to see stone again. he had recently been transferred ...

There jinxster. >> he was known for his constant companion jinxster the cat he was allowed to adopt through a special prison program. >> trying to make a swimming pool in here. >> he was also known for his offbeat sense of humor. >> its a bird, its a plane now its the biobucket man. to the bat cave. >> three years later, when we returned to indiana to shoot our extended stay series at the wabash valley correctional facility, we were surprised to see stone again. he had recently been transferred ...

Me once before in michigan city. now im down here at wabash. >> few inmates have ever made more of a lasting impression on us than james stone. we first met him in michigan city, indiana, during our extended stay shoot at indiana state prison. >> say hi to the public out there jinxster. >> he was known for his constant companion jinxster the cat he was allowed to adopt through a special prison program. >> trying to make a swimming pool in here. >> he was also known for his offbeat sense of humor...