Articles About prison

• Story Chain’s newest connections

  By Reilly DixonMay 15, 2025

  

  Launched in 2014 by village resident Jonathan Platt, Story Chain’s mission is to give inmates in area correctional facilities the opportunity to read children’s books aloud to their own kids — albeit from some distance, and from behind bars.

• Prisons hit hard by COVID-19

  By Carol SimmonsMay 7, 2020

  

  The high number of COVID-19 cases being reported in the state’s prisons is of grave concern for Yellow Springs residents who volunteer in area facilities or have family members who are incarcerated.

• Story Chain connects incarcerated parents with their children

  By Matt MindeSeptember 13, 2018

  

  Krista Vandyke was a participant in Story Chain, a program that gives inmates the opportunity to read to their children from the confines of incarceration. 

• Emporium art exhibit— Prison portraits focus on humanity

  By Guest ContributorAugust 2, 2018

  

  How does a person keep their will to live when their whole future is in the same place?