Do you know that ninety-seven percent of prisoners eventually get out? Prisons have educational programs which make a difference in prisoners? lives before they even get out. There was a proposal to cut all funding for study of the arts and drama programs in state prisons, but is it really worth doing that? These programs have a lot to offer, they make many prisoners grow intellectually, morally and even spiritually. The proposal have created many discussions to whether these programs should be kept in prisons and it caught the attention of the National Public Radio ProgramThis American Life? which focused on a production of Hamlet performed by prisoners, this episode revealed the improvement and progress that this program had..
             The performance of Hamlet made prisoners realize their mistakes and who they really are. According to them they could relate as the characters of the play. The play it self was challenging for them to understand and at the end they were able to comprehend and even appreciate a major classical like Hamlet, some use their past experiences in a psychological way to understand their part in the play. One of the prisoners pointed out that he used his part of the play to understand his life and recognize his mistakes.
             With programs like the one Jack Higgs presented to these men (Hamlet) are the ones that open hope to the prisoners. In the middle of all the problems that the prisoners have they have a light and that light are what those programs have to offer, it helps keeping their minds away from resentments. These prisoners were able to work together and learn how to work hard. They were able to see that hard work is well paid off. Before and after the Hamlet performance they were treated likehumans?, they were able to show that they have a lot to offer especially when they were performing in front of their loved ones. Thanks educational programs many are able to grow from their hate, since most of them ar...