Prison writing workshop helping Indiana inmates make sense of past, plan for future
WRTV s Nicole Griffin reports. Improving self-esteem, accountability and empathy, the Indiana Prison Writers Workshop focuses on helping those who are incarcerated in prisons across the state.
By: WRTV Staff
and last updated 2021-05-13 12:19:55-04
MADISON COUNTY, Ind. â For 11 years, Debra Des Vignes spent her career out in the field in communities across the country as a television news reporter.
Des Vignes main focus was covering crime and courts. She began volunteering inside a correctional facility and noticed the talent and creativity behind the walls. I thought, what a great idea to be able to channel someone s thoughts and make sense of the past and plan for the future, in the form of writing, she said.
Judge Charles Todd Jr. heard evidence and statements from the state and Curtsinger s defense and has taken the sentencing information under advisement. Todd set Curtsinger s sentencing for 3 p.m. May 11.
Curtsinger is already serving a Fayette County sentence at the Correctional Industrial Facility in Pendleton. He was sentenced Dec. 3, 2019, to eight years after pleading guilty to Level 3 felony possession of methamphetamine. The Indiana Department of Correction projects Curtsinger to finish serving that sentence Nov. 17, 2024.
Curtsinger has additional previous felony convictions for possession of methamphetamine, intimidation and dealing a narcotic drug in Fayette County.
He was arrested Nov. 2, 2018, in Wayne County after a traffic stop at the Village Pantry on South Ninth Street, according to an affidavit of probable cause. Curtsinger was a passenger in the vehicle stopped because its right tail light was not working.
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