Kandyce Powell, executive director of the Maine Hospice Council and Center for End-of-Life Care, listens to inmate Robert Payzant of Freeport talk about how joining the volunteer hospice group changed his outlook on life at the Maine State Prison.
Sounds of Comfort perform a song at the Maine State Prison recently. From left to right are Karen Flynn, director of Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice, and inmates Chris Shumway of Caribou, Steve Carpentier of Camden, Robert Payzant of Freeport and Nathan Roy of Bangor.
Maine State Prison hospice volunteer Sergio Hairston, of Lewiston, listens to other members of the hospice volunteer group talk about their mission last week at the prison in Warren.
Kevin Knight of Rockland works the sound board at the Maine State Prison last week for the band Sounds of Comfort.
Kandyce Powell, executive director of the Maine Hospice Council and Center for End-of-Life Care, listens to Maine State Prison inmate Robert Payzant of Freeport talk about how joining the hospice volunteer group changed his outlook on life.
From left, inmates Robert Payzant, Chris Shumway, Steve Carpentier (partially hidden) and Nathan Roy perform during a rehearsal of “Sounds of Comfort,” a band made up of prison hospice volunteers, at the Maine State Prison in Warren, Maine. Participants are finding an untapped reservoir of empathy by caring for their fellow inmates in their final hours. The band will perform its first public concert at the state’s maximum security prison on Wednesday.
Artist Olin Williams, a former inmate at the Maine State Prison, painted the murals in the hospice room.
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