Mural painted in the Female Visitation Room in Montgomery County Correctional Facility in 2014. Every Friday for a month a Brush With The Law class of approximately 35 participants would meet inside the female visitation room for a period of 5 hours. The mural that we as a group collaborated upon is a depiction of men and women of all races, sizes, ages, and personalities skipping around a maypole together in unity. To the right of the maypole dance is a couple helping up a youth from a fall. The words used to help tell the story says in three separate sentences -“Don’t Look Down on Someone” “Unless You Are Helping Them Up” “We All Fall Down”.


Mural BWTL painted inside of MCCF Female visitation room area Female inmates helped draw and paint this mural. 
A painted young girl with a flower in her hair for the mural at MCCF 
A young boy and girl drawing for the mural at MCCF 
Don’t look down on someone, unless you are helping them up. We all fall down. 
A nearly finished mural at Montgomery County Correctional Facility 

MCCF Female visitation room area . Don’t look down on someone, unless you are helping them up. We all fall down. 
A mother and son being painted for the mural at MCCF 
Maria Maneos painting the mural at MCCF 
Mural BWTL painted inside of MCCF Female visitation room area 
Working together for the mural at MCCF 
A close up of the mural at Montgomery County Correctional Facility 


Painting the mural at MCCF 
A nearly finished mural at Montgomery County Correctional Facility 
The completed mural at Montgomery County Correctional Facility

Before the mural would be completed, there was one female inmate who was to be discharged before the mural would be finished; she had been concentrating particularly on one image of a boy. She asked the instructor, “I need you to make sure this boy is finished right, he has to be just so”, Instructor said: “Okay, I will take care of it. But why is he so important to you?” Inmate replied: “Because he is my son.”

