The founder of one of the largest prison arts programs in the world dies at 80
(Artdaily.org)

Award-winning educator and founder of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), William Buzz Alexander, died September 19, at home, surrounded by his family. He was 80 years old. A legendary figure in the field of arts in corrections, Alexander, then an English professor at the University of Michigan, started working with state prisoners in 1990. He led his first prison theatre workshop at the Florence Crane Correctional Facility (Coldwater,MI). A student named Liz Boner in his Theatre for Social Change course asked if she could facilitate her off-campus weekly theatre workshop for the class inside the state’s only women’s prison. Alexander agreed and decided to go with her. `I knew I had to go there with whatever talent I had,` Alexander said during an interview in January