Posts Tagged ‘behind bars’
Art Behind Bars in Florida Prison
The Monroe County Detention Center in Key West Florida has an innovative art program that has been going on for 15 years. Helping inmates by giving them healthy outlets for rehabilitation.
Founded by Lynne Vantriglia in 1994, the program is a nonprofit and claims to “significantly increase the effectiveness of incarceration at reducing the number of re-offenders, saving the tax-payers of Monroe County over $2,000,000 and increasing the availability of revenue producing Federal use units.”
You can find out more information on the website and watch this 1o min video about the project:
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Surviving Prison
“America is a nation of laws that reach into every aspect of public and private life. By just going about the daily routine of trying to make a living, you run the risk of transgressing one or more strands of this invisible web of legal strictures and restraints.”
Behind Bars: Surviving Prison by criminologists, Jeffery Ian Ross and Stephen C. Richards, (available on Amazon) is modeled after leaflets from the 60’s given to nonviolent demonstrators. Their book delves into surviving the criminal justice system on many more levels. It also includes a glossary of prison slang.
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