Women In Prison Are Struggling To Access Mental Health And Social Support When They Need It Most
” The continued lack of mental, emotional, and social health programming for women in prison during the COVID-19 pandemic may actually cause the virus’s most devastating and long-lasting health effects for this population. “ This long form article is on the front page of Women’s Health Online. Featuring women and leaders from TPW https://www.thetpw.org You […]
Prison Yoga Project Hand Picked By Outside Magazine for Find Your Good Campaign
PYP was selected to be a partner in Outside Magazine’s Find Your Good program! Outsideinc.com receives over 3.5 million unique visitors a month; we are honored to be highlighted as an organization worth financially supporting and to such a vast audience! You can view Prison Yoga Project’s highlight here: https://www.outsideinc.com/find-your-good/prison-yoga-project/ The Find Your Good campaign supports people in finding […]
Celebrating the Mend Collaborative Launch
Prison Yoga Project is happy to support the launch of Mend Collaborative, a restorative justice organization providing healing, reconciliation, and dialogue opportunities for survivors and the currently incarcerated. We are excited to see new organizations created by impacted leadership and that will provide opportunities for survivors from all backgrounds to collaborate on giving back to […]
Open Prisons: Trust-Based Incarceration
In this article we see new and successful ways of working with incarcerated populations rooted in dignity. There is still more to be understood with this system and why people that commit low level crimes are incarcerated in the first place, but this opens the possibility and the ideas of new framework and new ways […]
Welcome, Prison Yoga Project Portugal!
Our Program Director and Training Coordinator for Europe, Josefin Wikström, led over two dozen qualified yoga teachers through training and preparation to facilitate a pilot program at six prisons in Portugal. Congratulations and welcome to the PYP Sangha!
Transformative Justice, Organizing, and College Courses
Ohio University added a new course for their students, offering a fresh perspective to social justice. “The course is to show students how to examine what social, legal and cultural systems and institutions currently do—and if they might want them to change to produce different outcomes. Her students might be observers or actors in today’s […]
Addiction, Recovery, and Yoga
The following facts come from the article, “Online only: Report finds most U.S. inmates suffer from substance abuse or addiction” which references a report from 2009. 65% of incarcerated people (1.5 million) meet DSM-IV criteria for substance abuse 20% of those incarcerated have histories of drug or alcohol abuse Only 11% of prisoners receive substance […]
Reading through the lines: The correlation between literacy and incarceration
This article shines light on the school to prison pipeline and one of the factors adding to the struggles of youth; illiteracy. Read the whole article here: https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2022/03/21/reading-through-the-lines-the-correlation-between-literacy-and-incarceration/
UMass Dartmouth Awarded Grant for Creation of Transformative Justice Center
“The Center will serve as a research hub for Transformative Justice scholars and practitioners, coordinate with the Certificate Program, and be a resource for implementing Transformative Justice practices through collaborative models of responding to harm and building community. Creating a replicable model of the Center and its curriculum will allow graduates of the Certificate Program […]
