City of Alexandria website, September 3, 2023: Thank you, City of Alexandria Sheriff’s Office, for mentioning and including our Heard writing contest during your ceremony where you recognized your incarcerated for their educational, professional, and personal achievements. The entire article is here.
Photo courtesy of the City of Alexandria Sheriff Department.
July 2023: It’s a little known secret, but our singing teacher Bharati Soman and our executive director lead a karaoke night at the Alexandria Detention Center every summer evening on Wednesdays. We began on June 7 and end on August 30. It’s been quite an adventure, and we didn’t expect such a positive response. (I say “we” loosely. Bharati does the work and I, the ED, sing loudly and badly). A few of the guys show up faithfully and have really become comfortable singing and soloing. A few sang in high school choirs and it shows. They still have the pipes! I imagine them telling their story to Simon Cowell when they are released one day. City
We can’t take our phones inside and record our amazing singers, so we’re posing in front of the gate. Bharati is on the left, holding her all-important pitch pipe and I’m on the right.
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