How Knitting Behind Bars Transformed Maryland Convicts A retired Maryland woman and her friends have taught more than 100 inmates to knit, while dozens more are on the waiting list for her weekly class. One of the prisoners spoke on his experience with the program, since he has been released from prison. “He believes his involvement with KBB helped him get out of jail and onto parole, showing the parole interviewers his small but positive effort to help the outside community. He continues to keep in touch with the women of KBB and is currently knitting a beaded scarf. “They’re not normal people,” Horton says of Zwerling, Rovelstad, and Heirs. “They’re almost like saints.””

How Knitting Behind Bars Transformed Maryland Convicts

A retired Maryland woman and her friends have taught more than 100 inmates to knit, while dozens more are on the waiting list for her weekly class.

One of the prisoners spoke on his experience with the program, since he has been released from prison. “He believes his involvement with KBB helped him get out of jail and onto parole, showing the parole interviewers his small but positive effort to help the outside community. He continues to keep in touch with the women of KBB and is currently knitting a beaded scarf. “They’re not normal people,” Horton says of Zwerling, Rovelstad, and Heirs. “They’re almost like saints.””

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