To fend off depression and passivity, Baghi and other political prisoners in Evin began converting prison into a laboratory for the reform movement.
Shortly after that, I began working on a collaboration that would have beamed prisoners at New York's Sing Sing prison into the Whitney Museum, a work highlighting the functions of two very different heavily guarded institutions.
From 1816 until 1914, the fortress was converted from a military prison into a jail for debtors, criminals and political prisoners.
Ms. Dallaire turned prison into an opportunity to serve others.
The process transformed the prison into a cultural and memorial space.
The guards were firing from the roof of the prison into the outdoor courtyards, he said.
"They weren't going to let him out of prison into the street," Ms. Sicignano said.
"They turned the maximum security prison into a university of the anti-apartheid struggle".
He feigned a stroke to be moved out of prison into a convalescent home.
The sentences run concurrently and would theoretically keep him in prison into the 2030s.
There is nothing new about turning a prison into a museum.
