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Incarceration

Art and the Prison Crisis (1982)

Audiovisual, text, and image material relating to topics of incarceration in California. Material includes jail registers from Madera County and moving images of Folsom and San Quentin Prison. This theme also features the California Arts-In-Corrections program, an administrative office within the California Department of Corrections, which oversaw the staffing of artist-facilitators at all prisons in California from 1983 to 2009.