It is Saturday, Sept. 24, and a dozen men imprisoned in Two Rivers Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison in Umatilla, Oregon, wait in the prison’s visiting room for their guests to arrive.
They are not dressed in their prison uniforms, the blue denim jeans and navy blue T-shirts with the red stamps that say “INMATE.”
Instead, they wear cream-colored tunics with ruffled sleeves and black tights. One inmate is dressed in a full tuxedo and plays Chopin on a piano that sits on top of a small stage bordered by Grecian columns. ...