According to an Inquirer news item, the Father of the Cebu Dancing Inmates was once one of them. Into the family business after college, Marco Toral made a detour at 36 after being implicated in drug dealing. Even then, he distinguished himself by being the grandson of the donor of the lot where he was jailed. And while serving sentence, he had a friend-owner of a furniture factory to subcontract the smoothing of rattan to them. They also busied themselves making candles.
It takes one to really know and understand one. Now consultant on jail matters, Toral is helped by his law student son in monitoring the cases of inmates. There are plans to build more room for them. Meantime, the dancers are also baking bread, and recycling materials into pen holders and artificial flowers. Rehabilitation is like mediating between prisoners and society.
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