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There were no chandeliers or ambient lighting for the roughly 16 men and their escorts last year. That did not stop Robert Miller, serving a six-month sentence in 2012, from enjoying an evening of music and dancing inside the Richmond City Jail with his 13-year-old daughter, Denashya Miller, now a student at John Marshall High School. The Millers were the participants of A Dance of Their Own and Robert Miller’s motivation for participating in the dance was simple: “I didn’t want (Denashya) to see me behind glass,” he says.

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