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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
7 September 2021
Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy
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Magna Graecia University partnered with prison administrators in Catanzaro, Italy, to help two incarcerated men find a form of rehabilitation by writing their own lives' stories. In a process called autoethnography, t...
23 August 2021
Colorado, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Prison Arts Initiative program, jointly run by the Colorado prison system and University of Denver, puts personal expression through visual and performing arts at the heart of the prisons' mission to become less p...
27 July 2021
Oregon, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Lettuce Grow teaches gardening skills to 200 incarcerated people per year in 16 Oregon prisons and juvenile detention centers. The teaching includes college-level courses and hands-on gardening on prison grounds, whic...
21 July 2021
Dallas, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
For three days each summer, the Girls Embracing Mothers (GEM) camp near Dallas gives girls an escape from their daily reality of being denied a normal relationship with their incarcerated mothers. Founded by a lawyer ...
16 July 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Chicago's Cook County Jail enabled 2,200 incarcerated people to vote in the November 2020 election by opening the jail to voter registration drives, civic lessons, distribution of voter education materials, two weeken...
8 July 2021
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Charlotte's Center for Women uses a rehabilitative approach to incarceration, letting up to 30 women at a time live in a group home that provides both therapy and connections to employment. Women with one to three yea...
21 June 2021
Middletown, Connecticut, United States
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800-1500 Words
College-in-prison programs like Wesleyan University's Center for Prison Education have a track record for improving incarcerated students' lives, lowering crime, and making prisons safer. But a number of factors compr...
21 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Formerly Incarcerated Law Students Advocacy Association at City University of New York's law school mentors people whose criminal records serve as a barrier to pursuing a law career. FILSAA is part of a movement t...
The Crime Report
Ryan M. Moser
21 June 2021
Miami, Florida, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Two years into an experiment in "incentivized prison" management, Florida's Everglades Correctional Institution is considered the state's safest prison. An incarcerated journalist reporting from inside writes that by ...
1 June 2021
California, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Three state prison systems have vaccinated incarcerated people at far greater rates than in the general public thanks in part to educational meetings with experts that helped overcome natural distrust. In California a...
28 May 2021
Spanish Fork, Utah, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Nearly 10,000 people incarcerated in the Utah County Jail have found paid work in the community during their jail terms thanks to the sheriff's Jail Industries program. While the incarcerated people get to keep just 2...
The Philadelphia Citizen
Chaundra Furin-Campbell
27 May 2021
Wilsonville, Oregon, United States
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1500-3000 Words
More than 1,000 women incarcerated at Oregon's Coffee Creek Correctional Facility have participated since 2015 in Reason to Run, a program promoting better physical and mental health through running. Participants rece...
27 May 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Solitary Gardens project started in New Orleans and has been copied in multiple other places as a combination art exhibit and therapeutic link between incarcerated people and the outside world. People on both side...
26 May 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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1500-3000 Words
First 72+ is a New Orleans reentry agency founded by formerly incarcerated people to help others as they exit prison. That help focuses on everyday needs for transportation, housing, and emotional support. As in many ...
18 May 2021
Los Angeles County, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
At the Los Angeles County Jail, two men incarcerated on pending murder charges created a homegrown approach to improving the care and conditions of confinement for people with serious mental illness. Their approach is...
11 May 2021
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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800-1500 Words
Michigan prisons and the state's secretary of state teamed up to provide people leaving prison on parole with the one thing they often lack: valid personal identification papers. Without a Social Security card or stat...
6 May 2021
Columbus, Indiana, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
The Bartholomew County Jail's drug treatment program started in January 2020 with a rigorous application process, followed by about 400 hours of group and individual therapy for incarcarcerated people with drug abuse ...
21 April 2021
Vermont, United States
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800-1500 Words
Vermont is the only state where no people incarcerated in prison died of COVID-19 in the first 12 months of the pandemic, and its infection rate is relatively low. The prisons took steps that other prison systems eith...
Grady Newsource
Grace Townsend
20 April 2021
Monroe, Georgia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In a community with a food insecurity rate of 11%, Walton Wellness provides dozens of families with a steady supply of fresh produce grown by volunteers incarcerated at the county jail. The program aims to go beyond s...
20 April 2021
London, United Kingdom
Text
800-1500 Words
The Clink operates in four British prisons, teaching haute-cuisine cooking skills and then helping its formerly incarcerated trainees establish productive lives once they're released. The training inside prison featur...
19 April 2021
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The movement to promote science education and careers among people who are currently or formerly incarcerated is making slow but real progress. Programs like the National Science Foundation's STEM Opportunities in Pri...
5 April 2021
San Quentin, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Empowerment Avenue Writer's Cohort pairs incarcerated writers with volunteer journalists on the outside who mentor, edit, and help the writers pitch their stories to publications. By publishing more incarcerated w...
26 March 2021
San Quentin, California, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Three men currently or formerly incarcerated at San Quentin Prison founded Prison Renaissance to connect artists and writers inside prison to audiences and potential funders outside. They produced an art exhibit that ...
17 March 2021
San Quentin, California, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Prison visiting rooms provide an irreplaceable connection between incarcerated people and their family and friends from outside prison. The in-person visits, despite the many rules that complicate the simple act of co...
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