Check out the following article, published today in Texas Monthly:
http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/when-prisoners-read-dostoevsky%E2%80%99s-crime-and-punishment-it%E2%80%99s-pretty-powerful
When Prisoners Read Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, It’s Pretty Powerful
THE DEEPER POLITICS OF THE NOVEL STILL RESONATE—ESPECIALLY WITH INMATES—NEARLY 150 YEARS SINCE IT WAS PUBLISHED.
“It’s a story about the difference between the head and the heart,” says Brian Troy. The story is Crime and Punishment by the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, and though it was a difficult read for Troy, the themes were familiar to him. Along with a dozen other men wearing dark blue scrubs, Troy is sitting in a large concrete classroom at the Cleveland Correctional Center in rural East Texas, about an hour north of Houston. … Read the rest of the story here.
