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South Carolina

  1. Therapeutic Arts Program at the Spartanburg County Detention Center, rduclos@spartanburgcounty.org

Delaware

  1. Prison Education , maureen.whelan@doe.k12.de.us, (302) 857-3340

Maryland

  1. Knitting Behind Bars, lynnzwerling@verizon.net, (410) 868-5129
  2. Artivate, info@goartivate.org, (301) 588-7525
  3. Carpe Diem Arts busygraham@carpediemarts.org, (301) 466-0183
  4. Goucher Prison Education Partnership, (410) 337-6033, GPEP.inquiries@goucher.edu

Virginia

  1. Art program at Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail info@acrj.org, (434) 977-6981
  2. The Messages Project (helps connect incarcerated parents and their children), contact form on website
  3. Open Minds (offers dual enrollment classes through VCU and Richmond City Jail), dcoogan@vcu.edu, (804) 828-1331
  4. Inspiration Matterz, inspirationmtz@gmail.com
  5. Heard (provides art programs to underrepresented adults), jahcollins@gmail.com
  6. Art for the Journey (intergenerational art-making for people with neurocognitive disorders), info@artforthejourney.org, (804) 784-5357
  7. Humanities Behind Bars (grassroots abolitionist collective), humanitiesbehindbarseducation@gmail.com
  8. Amplify Music (music programs for system-impacted individuals), rebecca@amplifymusicva.org, (540) 718-5220

North Carolina

  1. Prison Books Collective (sends free books and zines to incarcerated people), prisonbooks@gmail.com, (919) 443-9238
  2. Hidden Voices (collaborates with underrepresented communities to tell stories through art), lharris@hiddenvoices.org
  3. Narrative Arts, info@narrativearts.org
  4. Inside Out at Warren Wilson College (unites incarcerated and non-incarcerated students through dialogue), contact form on website
  5. Beyond Prison Artist Alliance (art programs in prisons), beyondprisonartistalliance@gmail.com

  6. Justice Arts Initiative, mykell.gatesjamil@bechtler.org 

  7. Joseph Bathanti (Poet Laureate of NC, teaches writing in prisons), (828) 262-2337, bathantjr@appstate.edu
  8. Jail Arts Initiative in Charlotte-Mecklenburg (art-making courses), annabelmanning@gmail.com

Georgia

  1. Reforming Arts, info@reformingarts.org

Florida

  1. ArtSpring, artspring@artspring.org
  2. ArtSouth, info@artsouthmiami.org
  3. Exchange for Change, (305) 771-3241, info@exchange-for-change.org
  4. NOMAD Art Bus, contact form on website
  5. O, Miami, contact form on website
  6. Open Books Bookstore & Prison Book Project, openbookspcola@riseup.net

Arkansas

  1. The Northwest Arkansas Prison Story Project, (479) 871-4875, prisonstoryproject@gmail.com
  2. Compassion Works for All, (501) 508-4334
  3. Arkansas Justice Reform Coalition, arkansasjusticereform@gmail.com

Louisiana

  1. Louisiana Prison Museum, (225) 655-2592
  2. Operation Restoration, info@or-nola.org
    (504) 684-9222
  3. Louisiana Prison Education Coalition, (504) 233-2522, laprisoneducationcoalition@gmail.com

Kentucky

  1. Shakespeare Behind Bars, curt@shakespearebehindbars.org
  2. Calls from Home Radio Program, info@appalshop.org, (606) 633-0108
  3. Voices Inside – Northpoint Plays, northpointplays@gmail.com, (859) 236-2747

Tennessee

  1. LIFE Program, richard.goode@lipscomb.edu, (615) 966-5748 ext. 5748 
  2. Arts Inside, artsinside674@gmail.com

Mississippi

  1. Prison Writes Initiative (VOX Press), (662) 816-4775, louis-bourgeois@hotmail.com
  2. Mississippi Prison Reform Coalition, mprcoalition@gmail.com, (601) 272-8419

Alabama

  1. The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project , (334) 844-8946, apaepau@auburn.edu
  2. “Corrections” Serial Drama at Donaldson Correctional Facility, contact@correctionssurvival.com
  3. Voices of the Incarcerated present Liberated Voices, info@jeffersoncountymemorial.com