Guarded Girls humanizes both sides of Canada’s correctional service
In 2013, before Matt White moved from Toronto to Kitchener, he had heard of the inquest into the death of inmate Ashley Smith at the Grand Valley Institution for Women. “That’s when I first learned that there was a prison in Kitchener,” says White, who is the artistic director of locally-based theatre company Green Light Arts. “I knew that I wanted to explore, investigate and learn more about the prison system in a theatrical context, specifically through Ashley’s story,” he adds. The Record, May 10, 2019.