Victory Gardens’ Lettie is a blood-curdling masterpiece

Playwright Boo Killebrew has written one of the great Chicago plays of our generation.By a despicable margin, America has the highest rate of female incarceration in the world. Only in the past few years have the nation's criminal justice institutions begun to acknowledge how decades of draconian sentencing practices have positioned the United States as a despotic outlier among nations of the developed world when it comes to "correcting" its criminal offenders—and the unfriendly environmen