LA Times reports on IPP's Victim Offender Dialogues

Restorative justice brings crime victims and perpetrators together to confront the loss. It's helping one grieving widow find forgiveness .  Part I

IPP acknowledged by the San Francisco Foundation

The Insight Prison Project was picked from 285 nominations to receive the 2005 Community Leadership Award from the San Francisco Foundation.

Victim/Offender Education Group

The Insight Prison Project is offering two four-day intensive trainings in May and October 2008 for those people interested in the initial VOEG training.  The May training is full however we are accepting currently applications for the October training.

Brothers' Keepers in the News

The IPP Brothers' Keepers program received national attention when a news story about their graduation was picked up by the Associated Press Newswire...

Bobbie's Ride – A Great Story…

Philip Jay (PJ) Seiler is a life-sentenced prisoner at San Quentin State Prison.  His passion is to counsel youth and we encouraged him to write the following story down to share with others.

Tony and Willie

This story is rare piece of prison yarn in which two former gang members find themselves by finding each other during a prison riot. Most of all it is a story about true friendship between men, developed in a most unlikely place: prison.

Christopher's Gifts

This story is a beautiful account of a mother who lost her son through murder.  It is a tale of deep grief and profound healing, one that after reading it makes you feel proud to be a human being.  The story continues to ripple in ever widening circles of healing.

Hearing from the Inside

IPP's Katargeo Re-Entry Program is one of many innovative programs run by IPP that we hope to make available to other prisons. The program in this article features life-sentenced prisoners in San Quentin. It is comprised of a dedicated group of men that for many years have looked deeply inside to transform the pain that led them to commit their crimes. This commitment to healing has increasingly attracted outside guests, many of them victims, to attend our sessions. Click here to read the story of one of the guests that resulted from these encounters.

San Quentin's Self-Rehab: Healing on the Inside

Read more about our programs and founder in this recent newspaper article in the Christian Science Monitor.

Premiere!

Introducing the premiere of an exciting short documentary film on the larger context of incarceration in which IPP's work functions. This piece was generously produced by James Redford and Ross Schneiderman, who are working on a larger film about IPP's work in San Quentin.

Good Morning America Looks at IPP

ABC's Good Morning America took an inside look at the Insight Prison Project and our programs.  To view the text and videos from this segment, please click below.