Video: Alliance for California Traditional Arts, California Correctional Institution
“We’re talking about mental health impacts, about restorative and transformative processes. This provides a pathway towards healing, and this is what we have to do in these spaces. We have to facilitate healing in a very holistic way.” – Quetzal Flores, Arts Instructor
Video: Fresno Arts Council, Valley State Prison
"I believe in rehabilitation; it is crucial. Today's inmate may be tomorrow's neighbor." – Carmen Maroney, Community Resources Manager, Valley State Prison
Video: Marin Shakespeare Company, San Quentin State Prison
"Character development is important to acting and adulthood. So as I continue to develop as an actor, and as a person of integrity, accountability, and responsibility—traits I'll be defined by long after the show is over—it's through drama therapy and Shakespeare that I find healing." – Nythell "Nate" Collins, Incarcerated Individual at San Quentin State Prison
Video: Actors' Gang Prison Project, California Institution for Women
“Wouldn't you want a person in prison to come out with better skills in dealing with disappointment, obstacles, unemployment, when they come out? It seems to me that it's in all of our interests to have vigorous rehabilitation programs—and arts is absolutely essential to that." – Tim Robbins, Artistic Director