Projects

Model Act: The Carceral Creativity and Poverty Reduction Support Act (in progress)

Policy paper at Scholars Strategy Network: "Unfetter Creativity in Prisons"

Directory of Arts In Corrections (AIC) Providers: Please add new AIC program information here

Federal Credit Union for the Justice Involved: First Step Alliance

How to register a copyright application from prison (5 pages may be printed on one side to pass prison mail censorship, where applicable): Prison Copyright Registration Protocol

Model AIC Engagement Arrangement (in progress)

Annual Global Carceral Creativity Yearbook (in progress)

Annual Arts Competition (in progress)

Handbook for Incarcerated Musicians (seeking collaborator/s)

Watch Copyright Behind Bars, a panel presentation at the 2023 IP Mosaic Conference, co-hosted by University of Illinois Chicago Law School, with panelists Jeanie Austin, Ph.D., Librarian, Jail and Reentry Services, San Francisco Public Library; Wendy Jason, Founder and Director, Justice Arts Coalition, nonprofit national network for those creating art in and around the criminal justice system (invited); Doran Larson, Ph.D, Professor of Literature, Hamilton College and Founder and Co-Director of the American Prison Writing Archive; Viva R. Moffat, Professor of Law, Co-Director, Intellectual Property and Technology Law Program, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver, advocating for IP rights for currently/formerly incarcerated and society; and Fury Young, Founder and Co-Executive Director, FREER Records, formerly Die Jim Crow, the first nonprofit record label for currently and formerly incarcerated artists.