Thanks to Save Our Streets Bed-Stuy for offering the opportunity for Prison Writes to join their community in gathering around the important issue of stopping gun violence. There was free food including burgers, hotdogs and home made fried chicken, a bouncy tent for kids, and tables with information with SWAG and raffles for all. Prison Writes invited guests to our table to share their thoughts, feelings and experiences around incarceration by writing on post cards we provid

Alissa Torres wrote this article giving advice to victims of trauma, specifically, terrorism and violence. In it she writes about how her writing changed, and helped her process her experience, remember the husband she lost, and cope with family, friends, and strangers questions and advice. #writing #trauma

Imagine you are a fifteen-year-old girl. You don’t feel safe at home where your mother hits on you, you don’t feel safe in your community where there is gang violence and your fourteen year old cousin was shot and killed outside of your building by a gang member last year, and you don’t feel safe at school where you are met each morning by school safety officers, a metal detector, and a dean patrolling the hallways shouting at you and your classmates. You’re already dreading