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Mural provides a message of hope for inmates at the jail

By: Mark White

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“Where there is life there is hope,” reads the message at the top of the mural, whose audience is primarily inmates inside the Whitley County Detention Center.

Mural with a message: Inmate Brandon McCullah (third from left) was the primary artist who painted this mural inside the Whitley County Detention Center. The mural is a joint project between the detention center and the Whitley County Health Department, and promotes getting HIV testing, a national suicide prevention hot line and the use of naloxone to reverse the effects of an overdose. From left, Whitley County Health Department Public Health Director Marcy Rein, Whitley County Health Department Health Educator Ashley Lawson, McCullah and Jailer Brain Lawson, who is married to Ashley Lawson.
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