"Lockup" Quilts
Not sure if anyone ever watches Lockup on Saturday nights on msnbc, but found it as I was going through the channels. I stopped to watch it because it was a maximum security prison, in Indiana, where some of the inmates were making quilts. These were inmates with life sentences, murderers, 100 year sentences, etc......... bad guys. They had a room with some sewing machines (and children's scissors, that they have to check-out). They made about 1000 last year and 900 the year before. Some were really....really nice. They donate them to good causes and to military families. They display them in their "sewing room" until they are donated.
I found it to be very interesting and nice to know that they are doing something creative to help others, while they are serving time.