Inmates explore life s meaning through Russian literature
BRYAN MCKENZIE, The Daily Progress
April 25, 2021
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) They’ve taken it into juvenile detention centers, onto film and over television, but this fall, University of Virginia students and their professor will take Russian literature into the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.
The program Books Behind Bars: Life, Literature, and Leadership will bring UVa students into the jail each week to meet with inmates and explore life’s meaning, its value and concepts of social justice through the prose of Russian writers.
The program, set to launch in the fall, is a joint effort by jail Superintendent Martin Kumer, Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney Joe Platania and Andrew Kaufman, assistant director of community-engaged learning initiatives and a Russian literature professor at UVa.
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KENTS STORE â Though more people than ever before are being offered home electronic release from the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, not all of them have a place to go. Thatâs where Cherry Henley comes in.
The founder and operator of the Fluvanna County-based Lending Hands agency, Henley has made it her mission to help people who are incarcerated get back on their feet.
As someone who had a difficult life growing up and had been incarcerated, Henley said she was determined to turn the negative aspects of her life into positives and help out those in a similar situations as she once was.