Bringing Fellowship to Those Behind Bars

When I was growing up, The Million Dollar Movie was a staple of WOR TV. That local channel was home to the N.Y. Mets but little else, and it constantly promoted old black-and-white features, including the James Cagney prison picture, Each Dawn I Die. Through frequent repetition, that melodramatic title stuck in my ten-year-old head. An innocent man, framed and caged, was doomed to awaken day after miserable day in bleak captivity. His fate was even worse than that of Lon Chaney, Jr., who only turned into a werewolf once a month.