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In this episode of the Prison Poetry Workshop, we go looking for prison poetry and prisoner poets in New York, visiting institutions like Riker’s Island and Attica, to discover poetry as transformation. is a tough place. According to the Correctional Association of New York, about 54 percent of those incarcerated at Mount McGregor are serving time for violent offenses. Working at Mount McGregor, poet Cara Benson opens a session of the poetry workshop by asking a group of all male prisoners to write a feminist poem.