Fractured Fables

Hansen, Ingrid Myrnes; Balkwill, Peter

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“…For nearly 38 years, William Head on Stage has offered consisent theater-based activities, with a yearly run of performances that are open to the public. Perhaps most encouraging, the incarcerated men run the program, choosing and hiring the professional director and actors who collaborate with them each year (Hansen, 2014). To date, there have been no consistent and long-term theater or artsbased programs offered to incarcerated women in Canada (for examples of international prison theater programs see Biggs, 2016;Keehan, 2015;Lucas et al, 2019).…”

Section: Federally Incarcerated Women and Access To Programsmentioning

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The Limits of Rehabilitation and Recidivism Reduction: Rethinking the Evaluation of Arts Programming in Prisons

Meulen¹,

Omstead²

2023

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<p>Canadian prison-based arts and other programming are limited at best. Even the country’s Correctional Investigator, or prison-ombudsperson, has critiqued the lack of meaningful options in which prisoners can engage. Those programs that do exist tend to be focused on the logic of penal rehabilitation, with the end goal of reducing recidivism. In this article, we showcase the evaluation of a 9-week arts program in a women’s prison, the aim of which was to build community and foster artistic engagement, thus running counter to normative carceral logics. </p>

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Section: Federally Incarcerated Women and Access To Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Limits of Rehabilitation and Recidivism Reduction: Rethinking the Evaluation of Arts Programming in Prisons

Meulen¹,

Omstead²

2023

Preprint

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“…For nearly 38 years, William Head on Stage has offered consisent theater-based activities, with a yearly run of performances that are open to the public. Perhaps most encouraging, the incarcerated men run the program, choosing and hiring the professional director and actors who collaborate with them each year (Hansen, 2014). To date, there have been no consistent and long-term theater or arts-based programs offered to incarcerated women in Canada (for examples of international prison theater programs see Biggs, 2016; Keehan, 2015; Lucas et al, 2019).…”

Section: Federally Incarcerated Women and Access To Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Limits of Rehabilitation and Recidivism Reduction: Rethinking the Evaluation of Arts Programming in Prisons

Meulen

Omstead²

2020

The Prison Journal

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Canadian prison-based arts and other programming are limited at best. Even the country’s Correctional Investigator, or prison-ombudsperson, has critiqued the lack of meaningful options in which prisoners can engage. Those programs that do exist tend to be focused on the logic of penal rehabilitation, with the end goal of reducing recidivism. In this article, we showcase the evaluation of a 9-week arts program in a women’s prison, the aim of which was to build community and foster artistic engagement, thus running counter to normative carceral logics.

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Fractured Fables

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The Limits of Rehabilitation and Recidivism Reduction: Rethinking the Evaluation of Arts Programming in Prisons

The Limits of Rehabilitation and Recidivism Reduction: Rethinking the Evaluation of Arts Programming in Prisons

The Limits of Rehabilitation and Recidivism Reduction: Rethinking the Evaluation of Arts Programming in Prisons

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