Click here to view our podcast channel! How much do you know about music therapy? Many of us are able to find comfort and enjoyment…
“When They See Us” is a drama web television miniseries created, written and directed by Ava DuVernay. The series premiered in four parts on Netflix…
Remnants still remain of an abandoned asylum that used to house the criminally insane in New York. A photographer by the name of Freaktography managed to…
With the recent Zac Efron movie, depicting serial killer Ted Bundy, the media have been shocked by the admiration many have expressed toward him. Netflix…
The disturbing details beautifully rendered in the final painting of William Hogarth‘s eight-painting project A Rake’s Progress (1735) continues to draw attention to the scandalous…
Ryan Pettigrew is a Colorado native who spent eight years of a 12-year prison sentence in solitary confinement. Struggling with bipolar disorder as a teen,…
“Between You and Me,” a documentary by director Chase Joynt, examines what it feels like to discover a family member has done a terrible thing….
Judith Carlin’s art explores the human condition, our stories, and how we treat one another. Believing in the positive power of art, Judith uses her…
Sixteen-year-old Kalief Browder spent three years in New York’s notorious Rikers prison, awaiting trial for robbery. Two of those years were spent in solitary confinement….
On February 8, 2015, Natasha McKenna—a 37-year-old offender who suffered from mental illness—died following an incident in which she was tasered four times by law…
“Killed by the Dark” is a poem by Ricky Silva, an inmate in solitary confinement at Florida State Prison serving a life sentence. Silva has…
Dan Pacholke is the former Deputy Secretary of the Washington State Department of Corrections—and a well-known prison-reform visionary. Throughout his career, he has helped correctional…
The poem ‘Requiem’ by Anna Akhmatova documents the trauma and suffering of the Russian people under Joseph Stalin. The poem was conceived as she waited…
In October 2015, Sweden opened the world’s first male rape center. It is the only known center that provides emergency medical care for men and…
‘Dose’ is part of an installation called ‘Girls Behind Bars’ by Pharmacopoeia, a group of three artists whose main objective is to engage the public…
In May 2012, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department for maltreatment of inmates in Alabama’s Julia Tutwiler Prison…
“We are seeing far too many young offenders entering the adult system who should be dealt with in the juvenile system,” says public defender, Gordon…
