Building emotional intelligence, one cellblock at a time

There’s something unusual happening at the Illinois River Correctional Center. For a prison, there’s a lot of talk of community, emotional intelligence, nurturing, support — and it’s not just talk. It’s focused in one wing in the prison — 3-A — but the zeitgeist seems to be spreading. The latest episode of Prisoncast! profiles the Building Block program at the prison, which was started up by several guys who'd transferred in from a maximum security prison. These men — some of whom have life…