9NEWS.com | Denver | Colorado's Online News Leader | Inmate transforms white prison walls into works of art
9NEWS.com | Denver | Colorado's Online News Leader | Inmate transforms white prison walls into works of art
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STERLING - For most of the nearly 25 years he's
been in prison, Michael Wentz stared at blank,
seemingly endless white walls that promised to run
as long as his prison sentence. His most recent stint
at the Sterling Correctional Facility has given him
the opportunity to change that.
"I kept thinking, 'Man, it'd be nice to liven something
up,'" said Wentz, who has now created almost 15 l
arge-scale murals on some of the walls covering
the 850,000-square-foot prison. "I'm fascinated
with the way I can create something out of nothing. I
can take a blank wall and put something up there
that can invoke some type of emotion or reaction
from other people."
1 comment:
Is it only obvious to me that this is just a PR trip to counteract the escape 3 weeks ago? "Oh we are REHABILITATING VIOLENT OFFENDERS!"
Yeah let's see what happen when my husband tries to get a waiver for CMRC in the next couple of months...we'll see if 9NEWS is interested in that story.
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