JoyBelle Phelan believes that no one should be reduced to their worst moment. Phelan’s own story is her best proof of the importance of that fierce belief: Her worst moments led to her incarceration – ...

PURCHASE ‒ These are heady times for the Westchester-based prison-arts program Rehabilitation Through the Arts, founded 29 years ago to help incarcerated men at Sing Sing learn to deal with their ...

The following guest blogger, artist Maria Maneos, BFA, MFA, came to my attention a little over a year ago when she contacted me about an amazing project she had recently developed—an arts program for ...

"Sing Sing," based on the success of a local prison program, has received three Oscar nominations: Colman Domingo for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Adapted Screenplay (screenplay by Clint Bentley ...

Community Partners in Action will host their 44th Annual Prison Arts Program Show at Connecticut State Community College Manchester. According to a press release, they are a non-profit agency ...

On Tuesday, March 1, 2022, the voice of Davis Andrew, an inmate at the Sterling Correctional Facility in Colorado, sounded across speakers in prison facilities statewide for the first time. Along with ...

Danny Killion, now of Troy, NY, was suicidal when he first entered Cheshire Correctional Institution to serve time for a string of bank robberies. But eventually he found an outlet for his pain in art ...

For Jermaine Archer, theater was a lifeline inside the walls of Sing Sing. Now he's the first formerly incarcerated man to head the non-profit group that saved him and sparked an Oscar-nominated film.

University of Oregon cheer and dance athlete Brooke Tucker has spent nearly her entire life in motion. A lifelong dancer who began lessons at... A year before he sealed No. 5 Oregon’s 26-14 win over ...