By EVE MARX in the Bedford Pound Ridge Record Review, January 15, 2010

Psst! Longing to see a wicked good play but don’t want to drive all the way to Manhattan? Surprise: awesome theater is right here in Bedford Hills, but you need special permission to see it. Oh, and the show goes on at 9 a.m. and be prepared to pass through a metal detector and undergo a noninvasive body search before you can enter the theater.

One of the most audacious, innovative, thoroughly entertaining live theater experiences you can imagine takes place at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison for women. “What you will see tonight is entertainment, but what I see is rehabilitation,” Commissioner of New York State Department of Correctional Services Brian Fischer said of a similar performance. And while rehabilitative, restorative and healing as these shows may be, from an audience perspective what you get is as good as, if not better, than anything you’d buy a ticket for at Long Wharf” or The Orpheum or Lucille Lortelle. ‘When inmates take the stage, it’s electric.
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Friday, February 05, 2010

Pamela Smart, the New Hampshire school aide serving a life sentence for persuading her teenage lover to kill her teenage husband, still insists after 20 years that she had nothing to do with the murder.

Smart, 42, is serving life without parole after being convicted in 1991 of recruiting 16-year-old Billy Flynn and his friends to murder her husband a year earlier at the couple’s Derry, N.H., home.

The teenagers insisted that Smart, then a 22-year-old high school media coordinator, planned the killing. Smart maintains that they lied to get a plea bargain for their parts in the crime and that the jury that convicted her was swayed by media coverage.

“I never wanted Gregg killed,” Smart told WMUR News 9 on Thursday in an interview at the prison. “I never wanted him to kill Gregg. I never asked him to. I never insinuated that I wanted him to kill my husband.”

“They’ll be leaving prison, and right now, as it stands, I won’t be,” she added. “So I believe there’s obvious motivation for why they said what they said.”

Link to full article at Fox News.

Published on Unionleader.com
January 25, 2008

By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader Staff

A spokeswoman for Pamela Smart wants the man convicted of killing Smart’s husband 18 years ago to tell the truth about his wife’s role in the murder when he seeks today to have the rest of his prison sentence suspended.

William Flynn, 33, is serving 28 years to life in prison for shooting Gregory Smart, 24, in the head in 1990. Read the rest of this entry »

By Marie Bergeron, The Equinox.
Published: Monday, December 8, 2008.

Prison a ‘sentence without hope’ for Pam Smart

Since March 22, 1991, prisoner 93GO456 has never seen the view beyond prison walls.

She has never seen hybrid cars or ipods. She has not voted in the last four elections. She has not blown out birthday candles or unwrapped Christmas presents under her family tree in almost 16 years.

She has however seen many aspects of prison life, including sexual assault, violence, harassment and involuntary protective custody.  Article»

Smart’s family denies profit: Relatives opposed to sale of items from prison

By Patrick Cronin, May 31, 2007. Seacoast Online.

The family of Pamela Smart wants the world to know their daughter is not making a dime on so-called murder memorabilia offered for sale on several Web sites.

“Please be advised that unequivocally and without question, neither our daughter, Pamela Smart, nor anyone from her family has profited from the sale of so-called murder memorabilia resulting from her tragic imprisonment,” the family stated.

MSNBC story, Feb. 13, 2006: A violation behind prison walls? Inmate Pam Smart sues jail and guard for sexual assault.

RITA COSBY, HOST, ‘LIVE AND DIRECT’:  Eleanor, tell us, what does she say happened to her behind bars?

DR. ELEANOR PAM, SPOKESPERSON FOR PAM SMART:  She says that she was raped by a guard and that he told her that, if she told anybody about it, he would kill her family, because he had access to the information about where they lived.  All visitors sign in and register, so guards have that information.

By Craig Lyons, The Equinox.
Published: Monday, December 8, 2008

‘Media circus’ atmosphere aggrivated case.

“It was a soap opera, a reality show, in a small town, in a small state. It poisoned the judiciary, the jury and the entire community,” said Eleanor Pam, academic mentor and spokesperson for Smart. “This resonated through the years.”

Pam Smart - Rita Cosby interview

COSBY:  The case was a media frenzy.  The murder and details of sex, betrayal and infidelity made headlines worldwide.

When the investigation and trial finally ended, Pam, her teenage lover, and three of his friends were in jail for the murder.  But the boys all struck a deal.  Two are already out on the streets.  The other two will be out in 2018.  But Pam Smart, who was not even at the murder scene, was given the maximum. Read the rest of this entry »

Published on Seacoastonline.com
January 25, 2008
By Susan Morse

SEABROOK — A family spokesman for one of the other four Seabrook men who served time for Gregory Smart’s murder believes Billy Flynn should not yet be paroled.

Robert Fowler, older brother of Raymond Fowler, 36, said Flynn, “took a lot of people down with that one decision he made.”
On May 1, 1990, Ray Fowler, 18, waited with Vance “J.R.” Lattime, 17, who supplied the car and the gun, while Flynn, 16, and Patrick “Pete” Randall, 17, went into Smart’s Derry condo. Flynn was having an affair with Smart’s wife, then 22-year old Winnacunnet High School media coordinator Pamela Smart. Flynn testified he asked God for forgiveness and shot Gregory Smart in the head. Read the rest of this entry »

Pamela Smart on the Cover of People Magazine

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