Twenty years after escaping from Shawshank, Tim Robbins once again finds himself working behind bars. This time he’s not doing tax returns for the guards or hiding a warden’s ill-gotten gains. The Actors’ Gang, the theater company co-founded by the “Shawshank Redemption” actor some 33 years ago, has received its first state grant to expand its work in California’s notorious prison system. Robbins, who also wrote, produced, and directed the prison drama “Dead Man Walking,” said the program “allows prisoners to feel a sense of community that diminishes in-prison violence, and enables them to develop emotional and social skills that aid in a positive return to society.” The Actors’ Gang has run the program at the California Institution for Men, California Institution for Women, and California Rehabilitation Center since 2006. It now plans to expand to other facilities. “The reason that the Actors’ Gang was started was because Tim...
- 6/18/2014
- backstage.com
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