Imagine yourself in this scenario: You have been released on parole after serving 20 years for murder. You are sent to live in a hostel bail and was ordered to comply with strict 11 pm curfew. Although technically free, realize that You can remember the prison at any time, for one small breach the terms of your license.

Every day You take a trip to the hospital to visit Your father is terminally ill. One day, a doctor tells you your father has only a short time to live. You want to stay by his side but curfew You fast approaching. You call the hostel to plead for an extension but it alerted categorically this is out of the question.

What will Your next? One person this terrible dilemma came true on November 7, 2007.

In 1976, John Massey, now 63, was sentenced to life for killing a welder at the club after a drunken row. He was released in June 2007.

Before he was freed, Massey has been preparing for release over the next 18 months in jail in Derbyshire. It left the House, he let out during the five days of each month are at home with his family in London and visiting his father in the hospital. “I got myself a great work-shops that pas,” he recalls. “For the first time in my life I was fully legal and it feels wonderful. All that changed when I parole. “

In the email that was sent yesterday to the tenant in 52 O Street, laid his plans: Youmans

I am working with the city to allow staff, art-oriented Sorority for registered members of the hostel and an art student and short term work.

As I mentioned in my email is limited to the first floor, it will be a major change in O St, the first of its kind since I bought the building in 2003. I have a lot of questions about its commitment to the o as a studio-never more than these last few days. Construction on the first floor is the securing measure, rather than jeopardizes, O St future as a permanent art studio.