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Social Reintegration of Prisoners in Spain

Date:
Oct 5 2006

Máximas de Seguridad, a survival manual written and illustrated by Jhafis Quintero creates a new voice for the voiceless, vulnerable and underprivileged groups in prisons and creates empathy for those that are labeled as dangerous by society. The manual aims…

WILD: Act I – Ballet + Criminal Justice Reform

Practitioner:
Jeremy McQueen

Date:
Oct 5 2006

“WILD: Act I” is a film demonstrating the power of creativity in constraint. Using moving choreography performed by Elijah Lancaster and vivid imagery displayed on three walls in a mock cell, Jeremy McQueen gives voice to young Black and Brown…

Women of York: “Shared Dining”

Practitioner:
Women of York

Date:
Oct 5 2006

In 2013, a group of ten women incarcerated at York Correctional Institution in Connecticut, calling themselves “Women of York,” created this work of art inspired by Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party. The installation includes six entry banners and ten place…

Inmates Perform Valmiki Pratibha

Practitioner:
Alokananda Roy, Calcutta Presidency Jail

Date:
Oct 5 2006

Alokananda Roy walked into Calcutta’s Presidency Jail on International Women’s Day, 2007. The Indian classical dancer had been invited to watch female inmates perform, but it was the men who caught her eye. “They shook me,” she says. “Their body…

Real Cost of Prisons

Practitioner:
Real Cost of Prisons

Date:
Oct 5 2006

The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together justice activists, artists, researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass criminalization to work to end mass incarceration. The Real Cost of Prisons Project is a national organization, begun in 2000.…

Howitcouldbedifferent.org – a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social change

Practitioner:
Hicbd

Date:
Oct 5 2006

Have you ever wanted to see current or potential innovations for poverty or the environment without having to do a lot of researching or reading? Have you ever thought of an idea and wanted to tell the world about it…

Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History

Practitioner:
Ian Alan Paul

Date:
Oct 5 2006

When the last detention facility in Guantanamo Bay was officially decommissioned in 2010, an international team of artists, curators and architects began planning and designing a museum that would take the place of the detention facility – a little less…

American Prison Perpestives

Practitioner:
Christoph Gielen

Date:
Oct 5 2006

With American Prison Perspectives, Gielen intends tol illustrate how prison complex designs reflect the politics, economic priorities and anxieties of society, yet there would be so much more to say with pictures inside the prisions. There are many insightful conclusions…

Thousand Kites and the Criminal Justice System

Practitioner:
Thousand Kites

Date:
Oct 5 2006

Thousand Kites, a nonprofit organization based in the Appalachian region, advocates for prison reform through performance. The following excerpt is directly quoted from the Thousand Kites website: “Starting 1998, as host of the rural, Appalachian region’s only hip-hop radio program…