The Long Stretch and Seeing Beyond the Labels We Carry | Emma Smallman | TEDxLadywood Women

I remember the first time I met someone who'd murdered another person. I was in prison at the time, not because I'd committed a crime, but because I'd started a role with a theater company. [music] because I'd started a role with a theater company working in criminal justice and social welfare settings.We'd gone into a male prison to deliver a piece of issuebased theater followed by a discussion with the men afterwards and that's when we met. He shared with me that he was serving a life sentence for murder ...