This is Karen today, and I usually talk about parole board reform, talk about second chances and second looks, but I’d just like to share a couple meaningful moments that were in my life, and one was the Element College brought a program in here called Books Not Bars and I helped troubled youth. And getting to see 14 and 15 year olds finally graduate eighth grade and get excited about poetry and taking cardboard and making ships and reading Shakespeare, it was so rewarding to have them think education was fun.
We read Shakespeare. We wrote raps. We made it fun. We read about Adolf Hitler. We wrote raps. We made it fun and that brought a blessing to my life, along with judges that have sent teenagers and their parents here, before they get finished in juvenile court. And to hear the stories of them turning their lives around and ended up being artists in New York or running galleries in Louisville at the Seed Art Museum; those are two moments in my life that gave life in prison meaning; helping our youth and knowing that our next generation may take a different path and lay down the stuff that leads them to these avenues. And I’m thankful for judges and professors and even the institution providing those moments for me, because they really have carried me through at different times. I thank Him.
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