How Puppies Could Help Reduce Prison Recidivism

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clary estes

Dec 10, 2019

Location: Kentucky

It is a starkly and bitterly cold winter morning in Peewee Valley, Kentucky, just outside of Louisville. The quaint brick houses along Ash Avenue belie what is just down the road; the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women (KCIW), a small mixed security prison holding around 721 incarcerated women. As I drive up and walk into the institute I am struck by that ubiquitous heavy clank of prison doors as they close and automatically lock behind me. I am told to give my ID to the corrections officer at the entrance and am asked a few supplementary questions before I sign my name to a form confirming my date and time of arrival. I have 45 minutes to visit - no more. I walk through the ex-ray machine repack my bags and am escorted by two women through a series of grey green florescent lit hallways and doors that are un-locked, at the discretion of an unseen officer, and immediately lock again behind use. Read More...

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Clary Estes
Photographer and Writer

Clary Estes

Clary Estes is a documentary photographer and writer from Central Kentucky who works internationally.

Clary Estes Photographer and Writer

Clary Estes

Clary Estes is a documentary photographer and writer from Central Kentucky who works internationally.

Clary Estes
Photographer and Writer