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| Name | It's a HardKnox Life |
| Video Uploader | Video From Rocky Mountain PBS |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 17-07-2024 14:56:43 |
| Video Discription | Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3zeF6Ch uiet, still, alone. It was 1996, and Mark Salazar was serving the second year of his 10-year sentence at the Colorado State Penitentiary, down from the 96 years he faced originally before accepting a guilty plea. Salazar was still in his early twenties. In isolation, Salazar remembered playing chess with his father and brother, both of whom were also incarcerated. Salazar’s brother was serving time in the same prison, just across the block from his own cell. Salazar created his own chess board from memory. He sketched 64 squares on loose pieces of cardboard, and labeled paper cutouts “Q” for queen” and “K” for knight. Salazar positioned his and his opponent’s army on the cardboard chess board, then called out his pawn’s first move. Shortly, an inmate from a nearby cell responded with their pawn’s first move. And so started another match of solitary confinement chess, the matches inspired Salazar to found HardKnox Gang Prevention and Intervention, a youth-focused non-profit aimed at moving fighting from the streets of Pueblo to the checkered chess boards of the local library, upon his release in 2004. Read more at rmpbs.org ------------------------------------------------------ Follow Rocky Mountain PBS on our other platforms, too. • Newsletter: https://www.rmpbs.org/newsletter/ • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rmpbs • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rmpbs • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rocky-mountain-pbs NOfbdVjXuzY |
| Category | Nonprofits & Activism |
| Tags | public media | colorado | rocky mountain pbs |
