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SUNDAY 9/3 @ 5 PM PDT
SABRA WILLIAMS & CHRIS BINGLEY
THE ACTORS’ GANG PRISON PROJECT
Host: TIM CARPENTER
Chris Bingley and Sabra Williams
Eleven years ago, SABRA WILLIAMS, an actress at The Actors’ Gang, approached the company’s Artistic Director, Tim Robbins, about starting a prison program. And The Prison Project was born at the California Institution for Men in Chino.
The Actors Gang Prison Project now conducts weekly and seven-day-intensive workshops in eight California prisons, as well as Juvenile and Reentry programs. In each workshop, 20-25 inmate participants work with Actors’ Gang teaching artists with the goal to unlock human potential.
In class with Tim Robbins
Also on the show is CHRIS BINGLEY, a participant in the Prison Project when he was incarcerated at the California Institute of Men. Chris now serves as a teaching artist for the Actors’ Gang and works at The Anti-Recidivism Coalition. Listen in as Tim Carpenter talks to Sabra Williams and Chris Bingley of The Actors’ Gang Prison Project about crime, punishment, and what might set us free.
I have been reading about the Anti Recidivism Coalition and how those who have been in prison for a long time have a very difficult time adapting to a life on the outside of prison. One person said,”The first years outside of prison was like a second sentence. There was no one he was allowed to talk to that knew how he felt.”
My son has been in prison for about 12 years now and hopes to be released in the next year. He most likely will be released to Santa Barbara County. I have checked on-line but I cannot find any program present in Santa Barbara that is available for mentoring prisoners released to Santa Barbara. Do you know af any parolee support program available in Santa Barbara County? Alternatively, can he be released to a location where you have a support program for parolees? Where do I go to find help for a newly released prisoner? Help, please. With love in Christ,
I’m sorry, but EngAGE doesn’t offer programs or support services designed for former prisoners. Contacting the Anti-Recidivism Coaltion directly would be a good way to find referrals. Good luck!