Martha Stewart’s prison productivity

In what seems like a story from The Onion (but apparently is true), the AP reports here that Martha Stewart on her television show showed off an ornate clay nativity scene she sculpted while serving time at a Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia.  Here’s more:

“Even though every inmate was only allowed to do one a month, and I was only there for five months, I begged because I said I was an expert potter — ceramicist actually — and could I please make the entire nativity scene,” she said.  Her creations were all fired and glazed at the prison.  She completed the effect with tiny artificial palm trees imported from Germany by a New Jersey distributor.

I cannot seem to find a picture of the nativity scene on-line, though I am sure it’s classic Martha Stewart (and probably would fetch a tidy sum on E-Bay).  Perhaps K-Mart will have some on sale soon for the next holiday season.

As noted in this holiday season post from when Martha was doing her “hard time,” I had hopes that Stewart would have become an advocate for sentencing and prison reform after her time in the pen.  Sadly, despite having so many varied abilities and being worth over $600 millions dollars and, I do not believe Martha has spent any significant energy, time or money on sentencing and prison reform projects over the last three years.