  {"id":22607,"date":"2014-02-19T07:47:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T17:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=22607"},"modified":"2020-06-10T13:57:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T23:57:31","slug":"prison-monologues-showcases-stories-from-former-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/02\/19\/prison-monologues-showcases-stories-from-former-inmates\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Monologues showcases stories from former inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_8120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8120\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/law-school-260x153.jpg\" alt=\"law school sign\" width=\"260\" height=\"153\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/law-school-260x153.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/law-school.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William S. Richardson School of Law<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Four former inmates of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dps.hawaii.gov\/about\/divisions\/corrections\/prisons\/wccc\/\">Women&#8217;s Community Correctional Center<\/a> will share their deeply personal stories in a special program at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.hawaii.edu\/\">William S. Richardson School of Law<\/a> on Wednesday, February, 26 from 12:30-1:30 <abbr>p.m<\/abbr>. in Classroom 2.<\/p>\n<p>The program is open to the law school community and to members of the public.<\/p>\n<p>The program is presented by the law school at the invitation of the Phi Delta Phi Honor Society. <abbr>PDP<\/abbr> treasurer <strong>Lauren Kurashige<\/strong> said the appearance by the former inmates &ldquo;will provide students with a unique experience in learning about these women&#8217;s stories.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Women&#8217;s Community Correctional Center project began almost a decade ago as a creative writing class to help the women use their own words to address their fears, and progress through self-discovery to healing. Called <em>Prison Monologues<\/em>, it is designed to raise awareness about rehabilitation programs within the prison system. The stories&#8212;created from original writings by former prisoners about their experiences and emotions in prison&#8212;often bring tears, but also laughter.<\/p>\n<p><em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=6297\">&#8212; A <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa news release<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa law school presents tales of self-discovery and healing in <em>Prison Monologues<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[9,68],"class_list":["post-22607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-uh-manoa","tag-william-s-richardson-school-of-law","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22607"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120540,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22607\/revisions\/120540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}