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The result is both symbolic and produces plants with tangible uses, says jackie sumell (who does not capitalize her name), who conceived the project; plants with healing properties will be redistributed to people who need them through what sumell calls a “prisoner’s apothecary.” The solitary beds are eventually overrun with plant life, a visual representation of a world without prisons, an idea which forms the project’s core mission. Typically a volunteer gardener on the outside will send a list of plants to an incarcerated gardener - the list provides plenty of options but is limited to what will thrive in the climate and season. They collaborate on a gardening plan and a calendar, often with a small floor plan filled in by the incarcerated gardener laying out the positioning of plants. ....
Rated NR · 1 hr 24 min Documentary Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King, three black men from rural Louisiana, were held in solitary confinement in the biggest prison in the United States., an 18,000-acre former slave plantation known as Angola. King was released in 2001 after almost 30 years of solitary confinement. Woodfox and Wallace, convicted in the highly contested stabbing death of white prison guard Brent Miller, remain in Angola where they have spent more than 36 years in solitary confinement. Made aware of their plight, Congressman John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, visited Wallace and Woodfox in prissdaon in March 2008. This documentary tells the ongoing story of the case of these three extraordinary men. ....