By Nicole Doll for KPTV Portland OR

Instructor Gina Kieval's Monday night yoga …

from BBC News, October 22, 2012

There is no alternative to making "prisons work", David Cameron has said, insisting criminals can be punished and rehabilitated at the same time.

In a speech in London, he said the debate on crime and…

Based on the book, Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison.

Fish tells the story of a 17-year-old boy sent to an adult prison for robbing a photomat with a toy gun. Fish is a coming of age story set inside the very prison Director T.J. Parsell was housed in over thirty years ago.

Late adolescence is a…

by Dearbhla Kelly for The Huffington Post, June 22, 2012

Last December I visited a state prison in Northern California (Deuel Vocational Institute) and not only had the opportunity to teach yoga to inmates but also to talk with them afterward about their yoga practices. It was an…

from Kickstarter.com

A Place to Stand is the authorized story of Jimmy Santiago Baca’s transformation from a functionally illiterate convict to an award-winning poet, novelist and screenwriter.

A Place to Stand follows Jimmy’s path from Estancia,…

from One Street Shy, June 15, 2012

Rummaging through my kitchen cabinets earlier today, looking for an old antique pottery bowl to give a friend of mine as a gift, I came across another piece of pottery I had completely forgotten about.  I had tucked it away in the cabinet so as not to break…

by Amelia Gentleman for The Guardian, May 18, 2012

Halden prison smells of freshly brewed coffee. It hits you in the workshop areas, lingers in the games rooms and in the communal apartment-style areas where prisoners live together in groups of eight. This much coffee makes…

by Jenny Phillips for the Huffington Post, May 2, 2012

In the fall of 1999, I packed my tape recorder and traveled from my home outside Boston to visit Donaldson Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison outside Birmingham, Alabama. I was hoping to interview prisoners about their lives in prison and…

by Yasmin Rammohan for Chicago Tonight, April 26, 2012

“Without tools to manage extra stress, there’s a high rate of recidivism [for inmates],” said Gabriella Savelli, National Coordinator of Prison SMART.

Prison SMART’s mission is "to make a life-transforming…

By Gwen Moran for Entreprenaur.com,  April 7, 2012

Most yoga classes aren't filled with gang members and convicted felons dropping F-bombs. But that's a typical scenario in Ascend Program classes.



Founded by defense attorneys Toni Carbone and Christine Galves, the court-approved Sacramento,…

By Michelle Alexander for the New York Times, March 11, 2012

AFTER years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless. But some questions a woman I know posed during a phone conversation one recent evening gave me pause: “What would happen if we organized thousands, even hundreds of…

By Marianne de Nazareth for the WeekendLeader.com, Bangalore, India, March 15, 2012

Picture a burly, foul mouthed convict, condemned to life imprisonment for murder, roaming freely in your town as part of a theatre group and then returning to his cell along with prison officials after the show is…

by John Crave for WFMZ News, March 12, 2012

Many of us turn to yoga to relax, but in Easton, there's one class in the last place you might expect it.

"Inhale," said instructor Gary Warren.  "Arms up."

At first glance, it looks like just another yoga class.…

By Pam Belluck for the New York Times, February 25, 2012

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Secel Montgomery Sr. stabbed a woman in the stomach, chest and throat so fiercely that he lost count of the wounds he inflicted. In the nearly 25 years he has been serving a life sentence, he has gotten into fights,…

By Jeff Sistruck for the Lehigh Valley Live Express Times, February 27, 2012

A near-complete silence pervades the cinder-block room, broken only by slow, steady…

By Shabtai Gold for monstersandcritics.com, Feb 11, 2012

Nairobi - Outside Nairobi's bustling centre and traffic jams, a group of women in striped white and black prison uniforms shuffle into a courtyard, where Margret the yoga teacher awaits them,…

By Tony Williams for The New York Times, January 26, 2012

The number of Americans in prison older than 55 is growing at a faster rate than the group’s share of the population at large, and many prisons are unprepared to provide them with health care, which can cost as much as nine…

Monks Teach Meditation to Incarcerated Teens:

The Lineage Project Aims to Help Incarcerated Teens

by Melissa Russo for NBC New…