Category: Programs

The Inside Out Storylab increases access to quality participation in artistic exchanges for people inside and out of the carceral system. One goal of this program is to promote reading amongst all incarcerated Alaskans by distributing locally sourced and global content to an incarcerated, information-deprived community, “who struggle to find …

The Infinite Writers program is an ongoing writing workshop available to women who are incarcerated at Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Juneau, Alaska. The writing workshop is a weekly offering (Mondays at 1:15-3:00) open to all women at the prison, i.e. they need not have minimum academic credentials to join. …

Success happens when youth play and laugh, explore sound, movement, stories, and share their perspectives about deeper issues of importance through image theatre activities. This collaboration began in March of 2017 when a small group of friends calling themselves Breadcrumbs Theatre Company asked JJUS Tim Oney if they could visit …

Our hope is to continue to be together in a mindful, embodied practice of awareness.   The first women’s yoga class was held November 2, 2017. Officer Johnson purchased enough yoga mats and blocks through her FCC Recreation Department for 25 students per class. The women’s yoga program offers one …

We foster the expressive and transformative power of writing by connecting women as writers inside and linking the program with the writing community and continuing opportunities outside. The Women’s Writing Workshop has grown from one MFA student’s mission to bring writing opportunities to incarcerated women in Fairbanks to a regular …

The Flying University is a prison-education program at UAS that brings university students inside the prison for mutual and collaborative study. Inaugurated in Fall 2012 by Dr. Sol Neely, the program has staged 15 consecutive semesters, in addition to some summer seminars, of intensive college-level study in philosophy, writing, and …