My mother teaches at a similar facility to the Donald E. Long Juvenile Detention Center. Her stories made me apprehensive about this design-build initiative. But after listening to PNCA professor Barry Sanders passionately describe his experience teaching incarcerated kids and his rationale for investing in their education, I found myself committed to grasping what this project reached for.

Visiting artist Jack Sanders discusses the development of the diorama concept with students

Visiting artists Jack Sanders and Butch Anthony strategize for the build phase

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