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Center, participant Louis Gershon and Civic Ensemble's Sarah Chalmers rehearse for the company's upcoming production as part of the Civic Ensemble's ReEntry Theatre Program. Gershon wrote one of the plays for the show, "Bahrain Blues."

Former inmates create plays through Civic Ensemble program

By Celisa Calacal, Life & Culture Editor • March 23, 2016
Civic Ensemble's ReEntry Theatre Program gives those who were recently incarcerated the opportunity to create their own plays.
Marie Gottschalk, author and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and her colleague Adolph Reed Jr. engaged an audience in a Q&A about mass incarceration in the U.S. on Sept. 17 in Emerson Suites B.

Q&A: Author and professor talks about mass incarceration

By Jenna Mortenson, Contributing Writer • September 23, 2015
"At the end of the day, we could send fewer people to prison and give them shorter sentences. The solution to the problem is very simple."
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