Humans of New York
They were our original inspiration to bring the unheard voices behind bars to you. HONY shares individual stories in order to show similar experiences.
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Named after Ella Baker, a brilliant, black hero of the civil rights movement. Following in her footsteps, they organize with Black, Brown, and low-income people to shift resources away from prisons and punishment, and towards opportunities that make our communities safe, healthy, and strong.
The Beat Within
The Beat Within was founded in San Francisco, (1996) when David Inocencio, former assistant director of the Detention Diversion Advocacy Program, teamed up with Pacific News Service, a non-profit media/communications organization, to offer writing workshops to youth detained in San Francisco’s Juvenile Hall.
1000 Mile Club
Sponsored by the Tamalpa Running Club. Provide motivated inmates with the opportunity to experience the physical and mental rewards that running, particularly long distance running, can provide. Many members of the 1000 Mile Club are first time runners who benefit from the coaching, camaraderie, and organized running events
William James Association
Our work has been primarily centered around transformative arts experiences in nontraditional settings, serving men and women in and after prison and high-risk youth. Acting on the conviction that the fine arts enrich, heal and unite communities, the William James Association has brought exceptional artists into prisons throughout California and other states since 1977.
Veterans Healing Veterans
Serves incarcerated veterans, veterans in transition, and veterans within wider community. Through peer support, narration therapy, and mind/body integration practices, veterans are equipped with tools for resiliency; building vital immunity against daily stress or triggers.
Insight Prison Project’s Victim Offender Education Group (VOEG)
VOEG as a cornerstone program that positively affects rates of institutional violence, successful reentry into communities, and individual health and well-being. Ours is a rare application supported by crime victims, incarcerated people, and community volunteers, which is wholly relevant as a response to our statewide prison healthcare crisis and to the personal mental health needs of prisoners, parolees, and crime survivors.
California Arts in Corrections
Arts in Corrections is a partnership between the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and the California Arts Council designed to have a positive impact on the social and emotional well-being of people experiencing incarceration, promoting healing and interpersonal transformation both inside and outside of the boundaries of their institutions.
Friends of the San Quentin Library
The Friends of the San Quentin Prison Library work to support and supplement the needs of the library to better serve their patrons. Through community fundraising and collaborations with bookstores and vendors, we work to fill the shelves with current resources. If other needs arise, we work with the community to fill those needs.
GRIP Training Institute
The GRIP Program is an evidence-based methodology developed over 25 years of work with thousands of incarcerated people and many victims/survivors. Rooted in Restorative Justice principles, the program’s trauma-informed model integrates cutting-edge neuroscience research.
Insight Prison Project
The Insight Prison Project believes that at the root of most offending behaviors are entrenched negative behavioral patterns learned from early childhood and adolescence. Our curriculum is designed for incarcerated populations to develop insight, practice new skills while in classes, and then integrate these new skills into all aspects of their lives outside of group meetings and after leaving prison.
Kid C.A.T.
Our primary focus is to offer an in-prison program, our 28-week curriculum, The First Step. With that, we have found that the relationships that are built during the group experience are long-lasting; the bonds created inside, and the community built between inside and out require a level of care and follow-through in support of folks continuing on thier journeys of healing and expansion.
Management & Training Corporation (MTC)
MTC operates 20 Job Corps centers, 18 correctional facilities, 12 prison and detention medical departments, 3 community release centers, 7 detention centers, 19 treatment programs, 2 outpatient behavioral health programs, and 1 workforce development site worldwide—with a mission to help improve people’s lives. MTC is headquartered in Centerville, Utah and employs more than 8,000 staff worldwide.
Marin Shakespeare Company
Marin Shakespeare Company is Playing for Good, providing leading edge programs that catalyze engagement – in our community and nationwide – about the most defining issues of our time. Social justice is at the core of all we do. Our theatre aims a spotlight on injustice, the demand for equity, and the urgent need for change.
Mount Tamalpais College
The mission of Mount Tamalpais College is to provide an intellectually rigorous, inclusive Associate of Arts degree program and College Preparatory Program, free of charge, to people at San Quentin State Prison; to expand access to quality higher education for incarcerated people; and to foster the values of equity, civic engagement, independence of thought, and freedom of expression.
You’re Going to Die
The ‘You’re Going to Die” movement is a deeper & more varied exploration of death & dying, one driven by creativity, fueled by arts & entertainment, writing & music, facilitating community connection & vulnerability, but always with the continued commitment to bring people creatively into the conversation of death & dying, while helping to inspire & empower out of an unabashed embrace of our losses & mortality.
College of Marin
Established in 1926, College of Marin has remained committed to educational excellence, providing equitable opportunities, and fostering success in all members of our diverse community. With campuses in Kentfield and Novato, students of all ages have affordable access to an exciting variety of credit and noncredit courses, as well as community education classes for lifelong learning. The Kentfield Campus is located 10 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge at 835 College Avenue in Kentfield. Located in Novato, the Indian Valley Campus is situated on a spectacular 333-acre site approximately 10 miles north of Kentfield at 1800 Ignacio Boulevard
Kindful restoration
At Kindful Restoration our goal is to bring hope to every adult in custody by teaching them how to embrace a mindset of kindness towards themselves and others. As they learn prosocial behaviors, their desires, words, thoughts and actions will change and they will become individuals who lift, serve and encourage others.
Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC)
The Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) is an international nonprofit peacemaking organization that shares nonviolent communication around the world. It helps people peacefully and effectively resolve conflicts in personal, organizational, and political settings.
AIDA-Awareness into domestic Abuse
Awareness Into Domestic Abuse also know as AIDA was created In 2015 at CTF Central Facility, Soledad, Ca. It was created to serve the incarcerated community with a program concentrated on intimate partner violence. In 2019 Awareness Into Domestic Abuse-AIDA became a 501(c)3 non-profit with the goal to expand our program to other rehabilitative institutions. AIDA now has 2 correspondence courses that are available for all CDCR institutions.
