Mural Arts Symposium Focuses On Art’s Anti-Crime Role in Society

John Wetzel, secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections, addresses the Arts and Criminal Justice Symposium at the center city campus of Temple University.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program held its 2012 “Arts and Criminal Justice Symposium” this afternoon in center city Philadelphia, part of its efforts to teach community groups how to use art to rehabilitate those both in and outside of the prison system.

“People should care, because crime is happening,” said Jane Golden, executive director of the Mural Arts Program. “And we want to be, at the end of the day, a safer city.”

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