Activism and Social Justice
3 Activism and Social Justice articles categorized as: Programs in Prison
Women On the Inside
by
Rachel Williams
This article comes from a program, called Women on the Inside, made up of a series of classes and workshops that took place in a Iowa Correctional Institution for women. Alongside long excerpts of her students’ work, Crane-Williams discusses the silencing of women in prison.
Find Her, Feel Her, Free Her!
by
Pamela Thomas
Find Her, Feel Her, Free Her, is a gender-specific re-entry program created by Pamela Thomas based on her own experiences of the criminal justice system. This program is a set curriculum that assists the needs of those re-entering communities by providing them with the resources they need.
Where Love Flies Free: Women, Home, and Writing in Cook County Jail
by
Ann Folwell Stanford
In this essay, Stanford weaves writing by her students at Cook County Jail into a meditation on the meaning of home and the impact of incarceration on all of us.