Celebrating the Mend Collaborative Launch
Prison Yoga Project is happy to support the launch of Mend Collaborative, a restorative justice organization providing healing, reconciliation, and dialogue opportunities for survivors and…
Category: Incarceration
Open Prisons: Trust-Based Incarceration
In this article we see new and successful ways of working with incarcerated populations rooted in dignity. There is still more to be understood with…
Welcome, Prison Yoga Project Portugal!
Our Program Director and Training Coordinator for Europe, Josefin Wikström, led over two dozen qualified yoga teachers through training and preparation to facilitate a pilot…
Addiction, Recovery, and Yoga
The following facts come from the article, “Online only: Report finds most U.S. inmates suffer from substance abuse or addiction” which references a report from…
Reading through the lines: The correlation between literacy and incarceration
This article shines light on the school to prison pipeline and one of the factors adding to the struggles of youth; illiteracy. Read the whole…
Accessible Yoga Podcast with Bill Brown
Listen as Accessible Yoga Founder, Jivana interviews our Executive Director Bill Brown. You can find the full episode and transcript here: https://conference.accessibleyoga.org/podcasts/accessible-yoga-podcast/episodes/2147632112 In this episode,…
Acknowledgment: the First Step in Healing
I wish you well as 2021 begins to give way to a new year. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be…
Cynthia Chandler and Reparations Bill for Women Illegally Sterilized in the State of California
We are honored to be hosting Cynthia Chandler this Friday on our Transformative Justice Series, Healing Harm.You can still RSVP here: https://community.prisonyoga.org/event/healing-harm-the-intersection-of-women-x-healthcare-x-incarceration-with-lawyer-and-human-rights-activist-cynthia-chandler/ The documentary Belly…
Congratulations to our team in Sweden!
“We were very grateful and excited for the opportunity to share our research within the forensic psychiatry on the most viewed morning news tv show…
Eliminating Crack / Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
In July, the House Judiciary Committee overwhelmingly passed, 36 to 5, the Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of the Law (EQUAL) Act, which would finally eliminate…