In Arts in Corrections, the author—a poet, translator and teacher—takes readers on a chronological journey through an annotated selection of 24 of his own publications from 1981 to 2014 which recount his experiences teaching, consulting and documenting US arts programs in prisons, jails and juvenile facilities.
Anyone interested in corrections and arts-in-corrections will be drawn in by the poetic sensibility Hillman brings to his writing. Readers will gain a historical and personal perspective not only into correctional arts programming in the US over the last 40 years, but also the institutional transformations in policy, culture, populations, economics, and the criminological mission expansion into other institutional settings like K-12 education. Original essays, articles, monographs and poems are interspersed with recent annotations to deliver not only a top-down view of the correctional system but also the author’s personal journey of "discouragement and hope" from work conducted in approximately 200 adult and juvenile facilities in 30 states and six countries.
This comprehensive book is essential reading for a broad cross-section of international readers interested in and involved in the arts-in-corrections field. With two million individuals behind bars in the US at any given time, the profile of arts programs in prisons and jails is rising and interest in criminal-justice matters more generally is increasing. This includes not only arts-in-corrections professionals, policy makers, students, researchers, advocates and academics, but professionals in multiple other fields as well as the general public.
Author(s): Grady Hillman
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 217
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgement
1 1983–1992
Writing Behind Bars Has Long History
Writer’s Block: Poetry-in-the-Schools in Prison
Poems
Two Poems
Introduction: About Time III—Inside Ten Years, Prison Arts Project
Southwest Correctional Arts Network (SCAN): Directory of Southwest Correctional Arts and Correctional Artists
2 1992–2002
Arts Programs for Juvenile Offenders in Texas
Anthologies by Correctional Facilities Students
Creative Writing Exercises for Adolescent Offenders
Kerouac’s Town, Dickens and Prison Art
Working Through Walls
Arts in the Community: Training Artists to Work in Alternative Settings
• Juvenile Probation Programs, Alternative Schools, and Correctional Facilities
• Excerpt (Case Study): Juvenile Program: YouthArts & Community Initiative—Idaho
The Mythology of Corrections
3 2002–2005
Arts Programs for Juvenile Offenders in Detention
and Corrections: A Guide to Promising Practices
A Journey of Discouragement and Hope: An Introduction to Arts and Corrections
Writing Programs for Incarcerated Youth
4 2006–2011
Epilogue: So, You Want to Start a Prison Arts Program . . . Advice from Experts in the Field
Core Arts: Mississippi Arts Commission and Communities in Schools Greenwood LeFlore
Introduction: Visual Restoration—A Reflection on Two Years of the Albert M. Greenfield Restorative Justice Program
Arts and Juvenile Justice
Community Arts Behind the Walls
Arts in Corrections
Foreword: With Square and Compass—Writing by Residents of Turman Halfway House
5 Epilogue
Introduction: Prison Arts Resource Project—An Annotated Bibliography
Index
