INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Correction finds that about one-third of its inmates are functionally illiterate, and about one-third will go on to reoffend again once they’re released from prison.
A nonprofit organization founded by an Indianapolis woman is trying to turn those numbers around with paper and pencil.
Debra des Vignes takes the Prison Writers Workshop into five prisons in four states to teach inmates that expressing themselves on paper is an alternative to the pain they’ve created and suffered that landed them behind bars…