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May 16, 2024
Touted as one of the oldest non-academic poetry collaboratives in America, the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange has, over the past five decades, set out to boost the city's literary community, offering resources to established, emerging, and even incarcerated writers.
April 23, 2024
Works by current and formerly incarcerated people will hang in the halls of power through this spring.
April 2, 2024
The Folsom Prison Theatre Troupe, a partnership with the Prison Arts Collective, is aimed at giving incarcerated individuals a voice and building empathy for those behind bars.
November 21, 2023
(Via AP Storyshare) DENVER — Cynthia Gonzalez has been incarcerated in Colorado for more than 25 years. Serving a life sentence for a murder conviction, No clear explanation as to why Colorado prisoner's radio program was abruptly shut down
October 16, 2023
Since 1978, the Prison Arts Program has run classes in Connecticut state prisons, helping students grapple with the past and prepare for a future beyond bars.
August 28, 2023
A new documentary shows how art was the saving grace of a former convicted loyalist terrorist and drug dealer, writes Suzanne Harrington
April 24, 2023
The Louis Traxler Mansion, a famed West Dayton property that is part of the National Register of Historic Places, was badly damaged by fire early Sund
April 2, 2023
Hundreds of works by prisoners in the Connecticut correctional system are on view at the Eastern Connecticut State University art gallery in Willimantic.
February 4, 2023
IUPAI’s main goal is to send IU instructors into prisons to teach college-level courses in visual arts, creative writing and bookmaking.
December 24, 2022
The beloved musical takes on a relevant new context in historic Canon City stagings