On Saturday we along with some friends of Jen and Andrey visited the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center. We watched, cheered, danced, sang along as 1500 or so prisoners participated in a program of approximately 18 songs. It is a new program that was begun almost two years ago. They started performing just over one year ago. The performances are scheduled on the last Saturday of each month. This is a maximum security prison where there are murderers, drug dealers and many other kinds of major transgressors. However, the claims of the official are that the dancing program has revolutionized the morale, attitude of prisoners in the prison. They encouraged us to come down after the program and take pictures with the prisoners.
A performance from "Sister Act". There were some women prisoners in this as well as a few men who were dressed as women.
It was a great show. We were all clearly impressed. Made us wonder if something like this might have benefits in other geographical locations as well.
2 comments:
Hi Marilyn and Lou,
Very impressive your prison visit -it sounds like something that would benefit prisoners a lot. Kudos to you all! Great to see Sherry and Kevin along with you guys in the photo.
Alice (Al)
Wow! Absolutely amazing! Music and movement touches hard to reach places within us.
Blessings to both of you!
B&G
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