'What I Want My Words To Do To You' focuses on a writing group led by playwright and activist Eve Ensler at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Ensler's classes have given birth to a powerful writing community in which women from strikingly different strata of society, all of whom are serving long sentences, help each other tell their stories. | Read the synopsis »

Premiered: December 16, 2003 at 9PM EST | Check for Rebroadcasts

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