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Show So This Is Jail! . i The occupational therapy department of the penitentiary of the City of Aeio York on Riker's island is more like an art school than prison. The materials used are prison waste, much of it from the junkpile. These photos show you the behind-the-bars artists at work. b - . 1 ' ! V.;- , A Good "badmen." Two inmates are working on a textile print here. The cloth is salvaged from ivornout bed sheets, and the cuts were made from scrap pieces of linoleum. a sis S&&. v. . Above: There are 6,000 ? burnt matches in this house, which is completely complete-ly furnished. Windows are "glazed" with cello- . ? .- - phane from cigarette s packs. The patience and industry displayed by this man indicate a change of heart. 5 Right: This man not only does the actual man- s ual work of making j hooked rugs, but also ere- ates the designs and color schemes. II is materials are burla p from old sacks and wool unraveled from old socks. He dyes his materials mate-rials to the tint needed. I- ' t- r- 1 1 - ;-v ?i 4- x'i hit- General view of one of the classrooms of the occupational titer-. titer-. apy department. It looks like a typical classroom in a typical art school. SolomonS. Dameshek, WPA artist who supervises the work, looks over the project of one of his pupils who is making a hooked rug. Other students arc plaster casting or working on leather. ' f r - J- ;K - 1 5 f . ! |