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| Art Class Could Keep People From Going Back to Prison |
| By takepart.com- Jillian Frankel |
| Published: 08/16/2016 |
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Drumming, dance lessons, painting and theater classes—thanks to Arts-in-Corrections, a joint effort of the California Arts Council and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, those are just some of the artistic offerings available to inmates at 19 of California’s 34 state prisons. The project, which launched this summer after a two-year pilot, aims to reduce recidivism rates, decrease violence in prisons, and improve inmates’ self-confidence before they are released. “More than 90 percent of all people in prison right now are going to get out. At some point, they’re going to be somebody’s neighbor,” Craig Watson, director of the California Arts Council, told TakePart. “Wouldn’t you want them to be transformed from whatever they were that took them into prison into who they really could be if they were rehabilitated and had a new outlook on the future?” Read More. |
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