As an Uplift WV member and artist,  Idle is one of the lead curators of Inside→OUT: incARceraTion, a traveling exhibit that fosters community conversations and education on mass incarceration and the need for community-driven, supportive reentry in West Virginia and across the nation. This might seem unexpected, as Idle is incarcerated at Mount Olive Correctional Facility, serving a life-without-mercy sentence. He views his work as an opportunity for restitution — to repair the harm he has caused and to help create the world he needed as a child.

What does it mean to act justly? An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth? Make the person who did the wrong feel as bad as the one who was harmed?

It’s easy agreeing with love. However, giving mental assent and actually living it are two different things.