A Triumph of Christmas Spirit in a Kentucky Jail | Mashable Docs

The holidays can be a rough time of year for inmates and their families. In Louisville, Ky., jail officials have developed their own tradition to try to muster up some holiday cheer. Every December, teams of inmates spend a week decking out their jail dorms with homemade trimmings in an annual Christmas decorating contest. Working with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that focuses on criminal justice, Mashable followed some of the jail’s inmates, many of them addicts, as they told the stories behind their incarceration while joining forces to try to win the competition.
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[@ImaginationManifest]

This broke my heart...Humanity is so much betterthan we behave. When when we evolve equal to our capacity. Best to you all!

[@createinmeacleanheartohgod6871]

Let’s say you were the victim.

[@francistan6925]

this make me cry, its hard that watching this people in their hard time and they having a holidays without their family.

[@CW-ts9eo]

Francis Tan yes but they committed bad crimes to be in there.

[@francistan6925]

C W yeah I understand, Sometimes people make bad mistakes.

[@francistan6925]

thast just life brother , but happy holdays , I just cant stop watching these dudes

[@wizard-wm7gh]

Some people even have to do that for there lifetime

[@clx0ud]

This is so heartbreaking to put someone in jail then realize they have a family too😔

[@createinmeacleanheartohgod6871]

Then realize that they have victims too.

[@ryanjohnson6485]

You never lose Christmas spirit

[@OverflowCafe]

good to see

[@axsthetic_kayla9355]

This made me cry, but at least their celebrating the Christmas Spirit

[@josieshires6935]

I think everyone deserves Christmas even if they have made mistakes to land them in jail they are still human we’ve all made mistakes homeless people deserve Christmas everyone deserves to celebrate it

[@SunSchrody]

Beautiful! Happy holidays to them.

[@fergboyrossgerson1412]

Just cuz they do time does not mean you can’t have a good time.

[@bboysoulzero]

Wow they have a better Xmas than me.....

[@zuhayrfoendoe5651]

Poor guys I hope they get out soon

[@raelenelabby6407]

God bless all of you xoxoxo

[@imrightcb]

nice

[@user-xk6ci2ei9z]

Приятно смотреть как зеки в татухах будто впадают в детство забывая о проблемах погружаются в рождественскую рутину It's nice to watch how convicts all in tattoos, as if falling into childhood, plunge into this Christmas routine.

[@annastewart816]

Look at the way the music sounds it’s like no Christmas at all.😐0:00

[@joshualowe959]

Because it's jail. Jail is a miserable life

[@annastewart816]

@@joshualowe959 It sure is a very sad boring sick nasty place to be don't go to jail ever not cool at all

[@heresahug]

I know the holidays for the medical floor 2 in LMDC were dismal- my son is being held there and has recvd no mail no christmas kindness and has been without additional clothing to change into- i have complaints filed with John Thorpe Jail inspector for LMDC-

[@Shycrochetqueen]

White guy glasses❤️❤️❤️ does he have a write an inmate account?

[@mr.anonymousasmr5435]

God is real despite the wrong these people committed they are serving thier time and living with it thier whole lives beyond a " jail time out"...i believe in god just not in a bible but...it doesnt take common sense to realize we all need to show compassion and humanity towards them deapite a crime.they need help and we need to step in and help each other to build a better society..dont throw away a soul and lock it away with a key..its so sad and this is not what we are put on earth to do.PLEASE SUPPORT OUR INMATES: LET THEM GET THE HELP THEY NEED MEDICALLY,MENTALLY,EMOTIONALLY...THEN BE A JUDGE when they can give back to society in a positive way

[@jacobpawelek6441]

im never been to jail and I though that's they don't do something like that

[@chrisschweitzer5941]

These are lmdc's detox dorms. Inmates have to enter into a program to be placed there. They follow sets of rules as well as tend to the inmates who are detoxing coming off of the streets. This is rather a privilege

[@madlilpony2768]

lol people think everyone in jail is cold hearted but its mostly people who've harmed themsleves with drugs

[@kellyberry]

This sucks I thought this was gonna be about KFC Colonel Sanders giving Jail Inmates KFC Chicken to eat