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This collection features changemakers both positive and negative that have influenced the sector of healing programs in California prisons broadly (formerly incarcerated program advocates, in-prison program providers, CDCR, funders, and legislators).  

Testimonies (both audio and written) from in-prison programs create narratives to combat the stigma and stereotypes of those incarcerated and affirm the healing and transformative power of community-based organizations. 

Testimonies from program providers establishes norms, struggles, and triumphs in the sector that have previously been unknown. These audio recordings and written testimony provide a first person narrative from those who interface with incarcerated individuals on a regular basis. 

This collection is meant to demonstrate the wide array of in-prison programs run by CBOs. The curriculums show how each organization’s mission and values are operationalized.

Purpose of the ArchiveThis archive project engages in discourse on temporal politics of immigration policies and systems (i.e. the temporal politics of the U.S. amnesty) and social realities—lived experiences—of migrants as they engage with these temporal borders. It pushes against neoliberal logics embedded within immigration systems that value certain migrants for their skills/social position over others, the biopolitics of immigration policymaking and borders, and the legal violence of state migration management of irregular migrant populations.