With the generous support of a grant from Literacy for Incarcerated Teens (LIT)[1] Prison Writes workshops are being brought to youths...

Thanks to Save Our Streets Bed-Stuy for offering the opportunity for Prison Writes to join their community in gathering around the...

Johnny Perez is a non-attorney advocate at the Urban Justice Center Mental Health Project (MHP), a civil legal services firm that...

Prison Writes, Writing to #CLOSE Rikers seeks to bring the voices of those who’ve suffered from incarceration at Rikers to the forefront...

The loud screams broke the silence of the night. The crying, the yelling, the back and forth cursing, he said she said every night was...

~In life we may experience things and go through things that we don’t feel comfortable telling others about. Through experience i...

Prison Writes held a workshop at the Tompkins Square Branch of the New York Public Library Saturday January 16th. Titled ‘Memoir Writing...

‘You sowed a baby and you reaped a bomb. ’ D.W. Winnicott D.W. Winnicott was a children’s physician in England who pioneered therapeutic...