Arts-In-Corrections: The individual programs are administered by an artist facilitator, a full-time civil service position created by the California Department of Correction's Community Resource Division. Three studio artists were initially hired from the community to come to the institutions to design and implement a comprehensive, multi-arts program out of a void. Today, there are 22 artists in these positions throughout the state whose backgrounds are as diverse as their artistic disciplines. The official goal of the facilitator and the outside artists is to use the arts to improve the prison experience. The Arts-in-Corrections program has provided the added benefit of helping inmates to begin changing their attitudes toward themselves and others. Read full article

A Midsummer Night's Lockdown www.artsjournal.com, June 9, 2009.
Cut art program will have an impact at CIM www.contracostatimes.com, Feb 1, 2010.