Prison Performing Arts is a literacy and performing arts program aimed at adults and children incarcerated in Missouri jails and prisons.

Prison Performing Arts was featured on a dedicated episode of NPR's This American Life where they followed men incarcerated in prison in Pacific, Missouri as they performed Act V of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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