A painfully reductive audit of California’s prison arts programmes – focusing only on participants’ rates of re-offending – may jeopardise the future of the crucial services in the state. The true power of these programmes cannot be measured in numbers alone, argue Jane Fonda and Sabra Williams.
In the United States, policymakers have long chosen not to fund access to decent education, job training, trauma-informed care and the arts in the communities that need these resources most. As a result, sometimes people don’t get these opportunities until they are incarcerated and someone finally sees a reason to prepare them to return to civilian life.
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