Truth Be Told brings in volunteers to lead Exploring Creativity Workshops for incarcerated women. Leaders vary from storytellers to singers to visual artists to dancers to drummers – to quilters and yoga teachers and writers.
January 31, 2020
Let’s Get Real
This 14-week program was created in 2002, because of a request from an Asst. Warden at the Lockhart Unit. She witnessed the phenomenon that is called “short timing:” It is common that when people are on their way out of prison they began to show reactionary behaviors, that are often self-destructive, to the reality of […]
Talk To Me
We facilitate this series in two different curriculum formats in two different prisons and we find that they both work very well. This 16-week series consists of three classes, with a goal of 15 new members, and 1-2 mentors, each semester. We hold two semesters per calendar year. We offer three modalities that students can […]