A message displayed above a mural of a sailboat bobbing on ocean waves under a cloud-studded azure sky said, “You are the Lighthouse in someone’s storm.” It was an unexpected slogan for a prison wall.
On a nearby door painted deep blue, a bright yellow Minion character offers “ways to say hello,” lists of suggestions about how prisoners incarcerated in a segregated unit of Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution at Albion can best greet each other. A handful of “sensory” rooms in the unit offer calming blue walls where harsh fluorescent lighting is dimmed by special covers…