Hello, my name is Marsha Oss. For those of you who don’t know me or my story, I was a justice-involved woman, am a person of color, and spent many years living outside societal norms so you might say, I come by my lived experience honestly. I grew up surrounded …
Volume 1 2023 Editors: Jaclyn Bergamino and Naomi Hutchquist About the project Editors’ Introduction This project was borne from a group of teachers who had been facilitating creative writing courses in carceral settings across Alaska. We had taught at Fairbanks Correctional Center, Hiland Mountain Correctional Center, and Lemon Creek Correctional …
Dimitros Alexiadis, Founder of Get-By and LION Member I attended the 2023 18th Annual Reducing Recidivism and Reentry Conference. I walked away hearing some powerful stories that reinvigorated my belief in justice involved people, and the work I do. Conferences are meant to challenge you and provide you a step away from …
The InsideOut StoryLab is calling for submissions to a new story collection.
Ameelio is a free-app that makes it super easy to send a letter to an incarcerated love one. Give it a try. https://ameelio.org/#/ We met with Ameelio in January. We learned that while they are focused on “ameliorating” a bad situation with their tool it doesn’t mean that they might …
LION has been named the recipient of a Goodcents Grant! This will allow for the continuation of the Newspapers for Inmates program, purchasing 10 year-long subscriptions to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Graduate students at UAF hope to incorporate content from the newspapers in future inside-out classes. In other news, LION …
Listen to three of our Infinite Writers talk about the program on Juneau’s KTOO radio show.
Watch Patrick Berry, Sol Neely, and Sarah Stanley discuss the idea of the “Contextual Now” in the prison classroom.