ABSTRACT
The first section of this chapter provides advice on starting and continuing correctional arts programs from Hillman and two other experts in the field. Next is a paper the author wrote describing his ten years working with juvenile offenders as part of the CORE Arts Program in Mississippi, followed by his introduction to a program combining restorative justice and mural making in Philadelphia. Next is Hillman’s contribution to a special issue of the journal Best Practices in Mental Health. After that, the chapter includes the authors’ reflections on his last visit to a correctional facility before the stroke: To the crochet club at Oregon State Correctional Institute with University of Oregon students. The chapter then moves on to a trend paper on the status of arts-in-corrections in the US in 2011, and ends with the introduction to an anthology of writing by older juvenile offenders transitioning to freedom at a halfway house in Austin, his last publication before the stroke.
