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It’s a bothersome Christmas song for a prisoner. All that crooning about troubles being miles away. The troubles are everywhere in this room, between the windowless cinder-block walls and under the large, boxy security camera perched near the high ceiling.
Inmate No. A0145400 plunks out the song on a 61-key electric piano. He’s a tall, goateed man with glasses who once toured in “Camelot” with Robert Goulet. His voice is strident, clean, an operatic tenor barely contained by the cold quarters of the Alexandria Detention Center.
Alexandria inmates John Henderson, Darrell Farley, Kendrick Mealing and José Carbajal practice for their holiday revue. Prisoner Jeff Dye
“Have yourself a merry little Christmas,” sings No. A0145400. “Let your heart be light. From now on our troubles will be out of sight.”
Inmate No. A0058694 starts strumming a guitar he borrowed from a deputy. Six other prisoners join in for the refrain, swaying in their green button-up jumpsuits, for once not thinking How did I wind up here? but rather How did I wind up in a ragtag choir of prisoners that has less than 24 hours to refine a half-dozen holiday standards for a Christmas revue in the jail’s gym for a potentially difficult and uninterested audience?
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