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Through his art, a former prisoner diagnoses the systemic sickness of Florida's penitentiaries

  • Written by Nicole R. Fleetwood, Associate Professor of American Studies, Rutgers University
Through his art, a former prisoner diagnoses the systemic sickness of Florida's penitentiariesMoliere Dimanche would use anything he could scrounge up – pieces of folders, the back of commissary forms, old letters – as canvases.Moliere Dimanche, Author provided

In 2007, Haitian-American artist Moliere Dimanche was sentenced to 10 years in Florida state prisons, where he ended up serving eight-and-a-half years.

While imprisoned,...

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