Full article issued by Griffith University.
ARC Future Fellow and Griffith Law School academic Professor Elena Marchetti is evaluating a unique creative writing prison program at Junee Correction Centre in New South Wales, which is helping Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men strengthen their connection to culture.
Established in 2011, the ‘Dreaming Inside: Voices from the Junee Correctional Centre Prisoner Writing Program’ is the only prison creative writing program that specifically targets Indigenous inmates. The program has provided Indigenous men with an opportunity to use creative writing as a form of expression and exercise a form of agency by publishing their poems and stories in books without censorship.
The project forms part of a larger ARC Future Fellowship project evaluating Indigenous-focused criminal justice programs in ways that acknowledge and privilege the position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.