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Art Music and Literature Rule Life at Joliet Prison
Warden Joseph Ragen oversees a culture rich facility at Joliet Stateville where inmates read about 22,000 volumes, study art photos and gardening, and enjoy daily music. The piece notes prisons forgo outside publication but have a prison magazine Time and host Italian bandmasters and opera programs while keeping poems and stories internal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. Rogers
Associated Press
Advance
New York
Stateville
Joliet
Illinois
Joseph E. Ragen
Ragen
Dutton
Gladys A. Erickson
Regan
Harry Reutlinger
Roger Touhy
den Ragen
Metropolitan Opera
New York Philharmonic
Chicago