AP reports from New York that some inmates at New York City’s biggest jail got a taste of ancient Greece this weekend.
A theater company visited Rikers Island on Saturday to perform skits from plays by Sophocles that deal with wounded, traumatized warriors and how they deal with other people off the battleground. It was a perfect fit for the New York audience behind bars — about 20 military veterans living in a new jail unit where even the correction officers are veterans.
Bryan Doerries (DOUGH’-rees), chief of the Theater of War company that presented the Greek tragedies, then invited the imprisoned veterans to discuss their personal stories.
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