But he took issue with how heavily it was tied to prison life. Though he became a painter while imprisoned, he said his art is about so much more. “I noticed that people started to call us ...

Crossing Fences’ Prison Art Program is a new program by the 365 Foundation in Lansdale that provides restorative art exhibitions for women in prisons and reentry facilities, reports IssueWire.

“Historically, the art form has been stigmatized because it is largely created by incarcerated artists,” Gurulé said. NHCC prefers the term “incarcerated” to “prisoner ...

Making art served many purposes. Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee and author of “ Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo ,” wrote in his contribution to the book on al-Alwi ...

WARSAW — On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, which falls on January 27, 2025, the state museum plans to launch a groundbreaking ...

A new education program seeks to provide local prisoners with a sanitary space for tattoos and give students the foundation ...

Read more about this story and why we reported it here. The underground art of prison tattoos has gone mainstream at Delaware’s largest lockup. In recent weeks, men imprisoned at James T.