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'Vagina Monologues' Production Reminds Female Inmates They Aren't Forgotten [HuffingtonPost.com]

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Elisia Dones, 59, gazed out the window of the bus as it passed Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York’s only maximum-security prison for women, and made a left turn.

The scene in front of her was familiar. Dones spent 1982 to 2003 at Bedford after being convicted of murder in the second degree. Some years, she sang in the inmate talent show, belting out Michael Bolton's "When I'm Back On My Feet Again." Now, she was returning to prison voluntarily -- this time to perform in "The Vagina Monologues."

Dones was one of three formerly incarcerated women cast alongside actresses and activists to perform this past Wednesday at Taconic Correctional Facility, the medium-security women's prison across the street from Bedford. The benefit production was a local effort within V-Day’s One Billion Rising Campaign to end violence against women. Eve Ensler, the playwright and Tony Award winner who wrote "The Vagina Monologues," accompanied the cast as a guest.

Dones, who now lives in the Bronx, said she believed the themes of the iconic feminist play would resonate with the women. "If you watch them, there will be tears that sneak out of a lot of their eyes," she said.

 

[For more of this story, written by Melissa Jeltsen, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...rison_n_7143810.html]

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