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A prison-based theater company performs at a sold-out theater in Chicago

The Mud Theatre Project started out as a group of incarcerated men who wanted to write and perform plays. Several years later, that dream became a reality on one of Chicago’s biggest stages.

WBEZ’s Mike Davis takes us behind the scenes of their recent one-night-only performance of “Searching For Justice.”

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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