Through his art, a former prisoner diagnoses the systemic sickness of Florida's penitentiaries
- Written by Nicole R. Fleetwood, Associate Professor of American Studies, Rutgers University
Moliere Dimanche would use anything he could scrounge up – pieces of folders, the back of commissary forms, old letters – as canvases.Moliere Dimanche, Author provided
In 2007, Haitian-American artist Moliere Dimanche was sentenced to 10 years in Florida state prisons, where he ended up serving eight-and-a-half years.
While imprisoned,...