A Journey of Discouragement and Hope: An Introduction to Arts and Corrections
With 100 prison arts residencies under his belt, a working poet introduces the field. By Grady Hillman (December 2001)

Art and Its Transformative Power
A prison artist speaks at the Arts in Criminal Justice conference in Pennsylvania. By Charles H. Lawson (December 2007)

Arts, Activism and Humanity – The Prison Creative Arts Project
Investing in the voices of the incarcerated. By Geetha Iyer (August 2008)

Community Arts 2007: A Muscular Year
The field of community-based arts showed its muscle this year. By Linda Frye Burnham (December 2007)

Core Arts: Mississippi Arts Commission and Communities in Schools Greenwood LeFlore
A juvenile-justice program that survived a rocky beginning and can now be found in every region of its state By Grady Hillman (August 2008)

Creating Behind the Razor Wire: An Overview of Arts in Corrections in the U.S.
An intensive look at a growing field. By Krista Brune (January 2007)

Creating a Model for Institutional and Personal Change with Music Theatre Workshop
Collaborative playwriting helps incarcerated girls in Chicago heal from abuse. From Community Arts Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1. By Meade Palidofsky (June 2008)

Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin
Preface to Tannenbaum's book on her experiences in arts and corrections. By Judith Tannenbaum (August 2000)

Doing Time in the Garden: Life Lessons Through Prison Horticulture
An excerpt from a new book with some great ideas for teaching in prisons. By James Jiler (June 2007)

Holding the Door Open: An Interview with Homer Jackson
Gill Ott interviews Philadelphia performance artist Homer Jackson about his performance work and work in prisons and schools. Published in High Performance #73, Vol. XIX, No. 3, 1996. By Gil Ott (December 1999)

It's Hard to Watch Your Brother Die: A Story from the Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project
A rural Colorado town commits to examining the death penalty. By Shelly Johnson and Jared Williams (November 2006)

Living Like a Refugee: Peggy Diggs Takes a Design Problem to Prison
Straight out of maximum security: make your own portable desk. By Linda Frye Burnham (March 2007)

Maintaining Humanity: An Interview with Grady Hillman about Arts-in-Corrections
The poet and founder of the Southwest Correctional Arts Network comes up with some cold, hard statistics in defense of arts programs in prisons. Published in High Performance #71, Vol. XIX, No. 1, 1996. By Steven Durland (September 2002)

Miles from Nowhere: Teaching Dance in Prison
A choreographer writes about Dancing Inside Out, Movement Workshops for Incarcerated Women, her program at Broward Correctional Institution in South Florida. Published in High Performance #71, Vol. XIX, No. 1, 1996. By Leslie Neal (September 2002)

Neither That Nor That: Trading Stories at the Intersection of Arts and Penal Welfare
The Medea Project and Intersection for the Arts team up to explore the California prison system. By Nina Billone (May 2008)

Notes on Prison Theater in Northern Uganda, Part 1
A prison collaboration in a country that has known no peace for 45 years. By Kevin M. Bott (September 2007)

Notes on Prison Theater in Northern Uganda, Part 2
The second installment of the artist's project journal. By Kevin M. Bott (October 2007)

Notes on Prison Theater in Northern Uganda, Part 3
The third and last installment of the artist's project journal. By Kevin M. Bott (November 2007)

On the Yard: Prison art connects with the outside
A visual artist working with inmate populations talks about the experience. Published in High Performance #58/59, Vol. XV, No. 2/3, 1992. By Tom Skelly (December 1999)

Richard Kamler
A profile of this artist whose work focuses on prison issues. Published in High Performance #63, Vol. XVI, No. 3, 1993. By Laura Jamison (December 1999)

Speaking in Poems
On writing and teaching poetry while doing life in prison. By Spoon Jackson (May 2007)

Taking Down the Walls from the Outside
An activist artist describes his work on prison reform. Published in High Performance #71, Vol. XIX, No. 1, 1996. By Marshall Weber (December 1999)

The 1000 Kites Summit: A Community Arts Focus Group
An example of cross-sector thinking that's integrating the arts into real-world change. By Linda Frye Burnham (October 2007)

The Gentle Giant
A Scottish artist writes about his public art commission from the Craigmillar Festival Society when he was an inmate in Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison. By Jimmy Boyle (June 2005)

The Importance of Self-Reflection for Community-based Educators
Reflection and personal development as inherent components of the art-making process. By Sheila K. Fox (July 2008)

The Path of Stories: Artists and The Thousand Kites Project
A long, deep look into a multi-arts collaboration that's starting a national conversation about the U.S. prison industrial complex. Includes video. By Arlene Goldbard (May 2008)

The YouthARTS Development Project
Study of a delinquency-prevention collaboration among federal agencies, national arts organizations and three local arts agencies in Georgia, Oregon and Texas. By NEA and U.S. Dept. of Justice. (Reprinted from Justice site.) By Heather J. Clawson and Kathleen Coolbaugh (July 2001)

This Is for Anthony Beard
Director of Artsreach vividly describes the arts program in the California Youth Authority, the government agency responsible for imprisoning and educating juvenile felons. By Susan Hill (March 2003)

Writings from Women on the Inside
Excerpts from 2003 anthology of poems and stories by women incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center for Women, produced in "Keeping the Faith" workshops by the Seattle-based performance ensemble, the Pat Graney Company. By Pat Graney (June 2004)