by Prison Story Project | Mar 19, 2019 | News
Story by Matt Henriksen I had been making art all my life when I started teaching for the Prison Story Project in 2014 and learned that art has the power to heal. Somehow I had written poems for over thirty years without acknowledging what I was after, but the...
by Prison Story Project | Jan 12, 2019 | Writing
I Was Trying To Describe You…(compilation of responses about lovers based on a prompt give to women incarcerated at Northwest Arkansas Community Correction Center) “I was trying to describe you to someone recently… How it felt to be with a man like...
by Prison Story Project | Jan 12, 2019 | Writing
These writings were from eight women incarcerated at NWACC in 2016. The prison does not allow us to use their real names. They chose the following pseudonyms: “Jake”, “Sunnie”, “Tink”, “Hope Cobain”,...
by Prison Story Project | Jan 12, 2019 | Writing
Twenty men at RLWCC participated in a two-day storytelling/creative writing intensive in 2016. The prison would not allow us to publish their names They Say you Can’t They say you can’t be who you really are. You have to leave that at the door. They want...
by Prison Story Project | Nov 27, 2018 | News
We received the following letter from Dr. Kristi Costello, Assistant Professor of Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Studies at Arkansas State in Jonesboro after the Arkansas tour was completed. (Dr. Costello arranged for our performances at the Harrisburg Juvenile...
