Huntington University press release
On Thursday, April 23, Dr. Jack Heller, assistant professor of English at Huntington University, is going to prison.
Heller will co-direct a group of 18 inmates at the Pendleton Correctional Facility in the Shakespeare play, Coriolanus, with Dr. Stacy Erickson, associate professor of English at Manchester University. Since September, Heller has made weekly trips to the maximum security men’s prison in Pendleton, Indiana, a two-and-a-half hour round trip from Huntington.
In 2006, Heller attended a lecture by Curt Tofteland, founder of Shakespeare Behind Bars, a theater program for incarcerated adults at the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in LaGrange, Kentucky. Heller was intrigued by the idea of literature that could make a difference in the lives of others. He began regular visits to Luther Luckett and, since 2010, has conducted yearly seminars for the inmates there.
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