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Grafton, Ohio – 15 August 2024
1. Medium of Efrain Paniagua-Villa serving drinks to guests
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Chef Brandon Chrostowski, EDWINS:
“Figuratively what is happening is that we’re, we’re reframing what’s possible in prison.”
3. Wide of table inside garden at Grafton Reintegration Center
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Chef Brandon Chrostowski, EDWINS:
“What’s actually happening? We’re about to do a dinner for 60 people inside of prison next to our garden with our class of 20 plus inmates who make it all possible.”
5. Incarcerated men setting table for event
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Efrain Paniagua-Villa, incarcerated person:
“We’re setting up a catering event inside of an institution, and I think that’s super exciting out of anything else. They get to see what we are like because we’re just regular people for most part.”
7. Various of kitchen workers preparing food
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Chef Brandon Chrostowski, EDWINS:
“So in 2012, that’s 12 years ago from today, classes started here teaching men in prison about culinary arts and hospitality. That was it. It was a belief that every human being, regardless of their past, has the right to a fair and equal future.”
9. Medium of kitchen workers preparing food
10. Tight of EDWINS garden sign
11. Medium of incarcerated man pulling parsley from garden
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Chef Brandon Chrostowski, EDWINS:
“The garden is just a way to, you know, really express ourselves from the ground up, really express ourselves with what we’re cooking and who’s preparing it and who’s growing it. So it’s just not just a garden, right? It’s not just nourishment. It speaks for so much more.”
13. Wide of Hope City Garden sign
14. Medium of Paniagua-Villa serving guests
15. Various of incarcerated men preparing bread for guests
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Efrain Paniagua-Villa, incarcerated person:
“Having this group of guys who I would call my friends cook with me kind of fills that in, because at home it’s my sister and I or my mom and I, and we’re always cooking.”
17. Tight of kitchen worker preparing lamb
18. Medium of incarcerated person delivering cooked food to the dinner event
19. Various of men making salads
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Chef Brandon Chrostowski, EDWINS:
“So we have a kitchen team. We have a team that’s running food. We have a team that’s on drinks because every course has a different drink, hand bottled, you know, crafted, mocktail. And then we have, service staff.”
21. Medium of Joshua Freshwater, right and Chrostowski listening to speaker
22. Medium of Greg Sigelmier preparing salads
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Jerry Spatny, Warden at Grafton Correctional Institution:
“Many of our guys that live here are going home, so they’re going home to be our neighbors. We want our neighbors to be prepared to be law abiding citizens, and that’s what this program is about. It’s not just about teaching guys how to cook or how to prepare food. This gives them reentry level skills so that when they go home, they can be successful in that environment.”
24. Tight of Sigelmier serving guests
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Sigelmier, incarcerated person:
“It’s a program that I actually want to carry to the outside when I leave here. There’s housing. There’s so many different opportunities that they make available to us and they actually care.”
26. Sigelmier preparing food
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Sigelmier, incarcerated person:
28. Tight of sign
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The men in the program are serving a variety of sentences from short to life.
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