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…
Category: Prison Industrial Complex
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…
Back to School Report: Re-engage Students and Close the School-to-Prison Pipeline
The Sentencing Project brings you a guide and outline of how to not engage in traditional forms of discipline and expulsion that has historically lead…
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…
Stanford Social Innovation Review asks, “What Really Makes Us Safe?”
An excerpt from the book Rich Thanks to Racism addresses shifting investments in mass criminalization to multidisciplinary systems of care. “For example, in the early…
The Healing Journey: from Incarceration to Healing Artist with Alex Anderson
Join us to hear the personal story of Alexander Anderson: his time spent incarcerated, his journey to becoming a Social Worker, to finding the profound…
Dying of Heat in Prison: Climate Change and Incarceration
In a quite devastating article and documentary from 2017, The Marshall Project tells us stories of incarcerated and their families, lawsuits, and the denial of…