Prison Yoga Project Selected by Stand Together Foundation as One of the Most Transformative Nonprofits in the Country
Prison Yoga Project joins a highly selective community of nonprofits working to break the cycle of poverty. Prison Yoga Project is proud to announce it has been selected to participate in Stand Together Foundation’s Catalyst Program, a management training and peer-learning program to help nonprofits grow, scale, and replicate their success. We are one of […]
Trauma Research Foundation recommends ‘Freedom From the Inside’
We are honored to be among such great company! Check out all of the books that Trauma Research Foundation recommends as well as purchase our book, Freedom from the Inside! What should we add to our bookshop? Let us know!
Accessible Yoga Podcast with Bill Brown
Listen as Accessible Yoga Founder, Jivana interviews our Executive Director Bill Brown. You can find the full episode and transcript here: https://conference.accessibleyoga.org/podcasts/accessible-yoga-podcast/episodes/2147632112 In this episode, Jivana and Bill discuss: Bill’s background and personal interests How Bill started his yoga practice How Bill ended up volunteering teaching in prison Childhood trauma How trauma is stored in […]
Acknowledgment: the First Step in Healing
I wish you well as 2021 begins to give way to a new year. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be at peace. We at Prison Yoga Project appreciate the opportunity to spend time with our families and friends with an emphasis on gratitude at this time of year. We’re also […]
Back to School Report: Re-engage Students and Close the School-to-Prison Pipeline
The Sentencing Project brings you a guide and outline of how to not engage in traditional forms of discipline and expulsion that has historically lead to feeding the school-to-prison pipeline. “A new report from The Sentencing Project documents immense opportunities and perilous pitfalls facing the U.S. education system as schools reopen after an unprecedented nationwide […]
Congratulations to Our Team in Sweden!
“We were very grateful and excited for the opportunity to share our research within the forensic psychiatry on the most viewed morning news tv show on their best broadcast timing in Sweden yesterday!” Josefin Wikström Congratulations to Josefin Wikström, Nóra Kerekes, and their amazing team in Sweden!
Eliminating Crack / Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
In July, the House Judiciary Committee overwhelmingly passed, 36 to 5, the Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of the Law (EQUAL) Act, which would finally eliminate the federal sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses. The Sentencing Project dives deeper into this topic in a news article here: https://www.sentencingproject.org/news/race-justice-news-senate-hearing-crack-cocaine-sentencing-disparity/ For a deeper history of sentencing […]
Stanford Social Innovation Review asks, “What Really Makes Us Safe?”
An excerpt from the book Rich Thanks to Racism addresses shifting investments in mass criminalization to multidisciplinary systems of care. “For example, in the early 1970s our public investment in the criminal justice system was only about one-fifth of what it is now, and our incarcerated population was 85 percent lower than it is currently. […]
The Healing Journey: from Incarceration to Healing Artist with Alex Anderson
Join us to hear the personal story of Alexander Anderson: his time spent incarcerated, his journey to becoming a Social Worker, to finding the profound work of Ritual 4 Return, and becoming their Executive Director. “I have lived experience. I’ve been incarcerated since I was a kid.” At age 15, police arrested Alex for a […]
