Students, staff, and family members all came out to support the Justice Scholars program and their art at the opening ceremony of “Hope Restored: Justice Scholars Student Exhibition,” on Feb 13.

Marybeth Redmond is a columnist for the Essex Reporter. Redmond is a long-time journalist who served as state representative ...

I spent more hours than I can count meeting with teenage clients in the dingy visiting room at the Oak Hill Youth Center, Washington’s youth prison. Infested with rats, roaches and even snakes ...

When you think of public art, it might be Banksy, the Fourth Plinth or Boudicca outside parliament. Or Angel of the North and Brick Train in Darlington. Maybe the recent Slipstream, greeting you as ...

University of California, Santa Barbara provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. President Joe Biden’s record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is ...

You cut that out of schools, there's - I feel like there's a path to the prison industrial complex. Art is not frivolous. Art connects us, and we need it in our society. We need it in our schools.

Why is that? I mean, you cut off the art, you cut off the soul. You cut off people understanding how to be human with each other. You cut that out of schools, there's - I feel like there's a path to ...

Upward of 95% of incarcerated people will eventually leave prison, either on parole or because they’ve completed their sentence. And the older they are when released, the harder it can be to ...