Bringing Down Youth Prisons and Building a Better Place
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I saw the movie Weeds in 1989. It was a “prison movie,” and I wasn’t particularly interested, but my friend Russell insisted that I watch it. Honestly, I do not recall much of the plot, but one scene has remained in my memory ever since. Nick Nolte’s character, who starts an acting troop while serving a life sentence, speaks about visiting the ruins of an old prison. “I saw a prison near Plymouth Rock, and it was overgrown with weeds … they sprang from every crack.