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Marin exhibit highlights artistic visions of inmates

More than 100 works of art created by people incarcerated in California are on display this month at the Marin County Civic Center.

The exhibition includes dozens of painted, winged hearts hanging on walls on the first and third floors of the building. Visitors can also listen to recorded poems by inmates and absorb stories that are expressed in paintings and sculptures.

The show, “Visions of Hope,” is a collaboration between Life on Art, a nonprofit organization in Petaluma, and the People’s Commission for Integrity in Criminal Justice, an organization based in Mill Valley. The show runs through Oct. 24.

On Thursday, organizers presented a panel discussion in the Board of Supervisors’ chamber called “Reimaging Justice” with Marin County Public Defender David Sutton and Orange County Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders.

Sutton discussed the state’s new Scandinavia-inspired prison policies that focus on rehabilitation and preparing inmates for their release back into society. He called for the community to embrace proposed treatment facilities or low-income housing.

“This is someone’s brother, sister, mother or cousin,” Sutton said. “We should be supporting them and supporting their reentry.”

Life on Art previously worked on art projects with patients at mental health treatment centers. Over the summer, staff members led art workshops at prisons in Chowchilla and Soledad.

“What we’re really trying to do here is build bridges of awareness,” said Tracy Ferron, the founder of Life on Art. “With these art installations, we want to empower people who often feel forgotten by society, and to build bridges of empathy so that the public can understand that these are people.”

Jennifer Sheetz, founder of the People’s Commission for Integrity in Criminal Justice, is a lawyer who represents incarcerated people who say they were wrongfully convicted. For the “Visions of Hope” show, her clients created three images that portrayed their lives before and during their incarceration, and what they hope to see after their release.

Paul Denham, a British-born inmate who was convicted of the 1995 murder of his ex-wife’s friend in Long Beach, created a courtroom scene that shows a Grim Reaper staring at someone who is holding up a firearm. He also designed an image that portrayed him climbing down on a rope from a prison yard to a street in Britain.

Joseph Nuccio, a Stockton resident who was convicted of murder, painted a portrait of a skull wearing a Statue of Liberty headdress and biting on two gavels. He also created an image of a hand reaching for an exit door. A description states that Nuccio was tried in a cold case that has missing or inaccessible evidence.

“Most of them never had access to art before, had never held a paintbrush,” Sheetz said about her clients. “It was a fantastic journey for me in working with them in terms of storytelling, and that is largely what ‘Visions of Hope’ is — storytelling.”

Brian West, who attended the panel discussion, was impressed by the art show.

“What I’m seeing is how important it is to humanize people who are incarcerated because they’re human,” he said. “They’re so often seen as a story or a narrative that comes from the media — not as individuals who are coming from difficult circumstances and trying to figure out how to improve themselves and how to build a life when the world is stacked against them.”

During the panel discussion, speakers shared their views on reforming the state’s criminal justice system.

Sheetz called for an independent review process of convictions, similar to the “Nordic model” of justice.

“One of the more interesting parts of our criminal justice system is that we don’t have an adequate way to review, we don’t have checks and balances set up for conflicts of interest and to review claims of misconduct outside the county,” she said.

Sanders is known for his involvement in Orange County’s jailhouse informant scandal in the 2010s. He defended Scott Dekraai in a mass shooting case at the time and revealed that prosecutors misused a jailhouse informant. Dekraai received a life sentence instead of a death penalty because of the prosecutorial issues.

On Thursday, Sanders addressed the difficulty of reviewing new evidence in a case after a conviction was made.

“We need a change,” he said. “That means defendants being able to have their shot, to come back when new evidence is uncovered.”

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