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CCWF residents, staff, and volunteers beautify yard to honor victims

September 24, 2024 by Kristin Rossum

Central California Women’s Facility held a yard beautification event as part of Victim Awareness Week and community building in late Spring. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized, WOMEN IN PRISON Tagged With: Central California Women’s Facility, Insight Garden Program, Planting Justice, Unit 512 In-Between Committee, Victim Awareness Week

Folsom’s Insight Garden Project

May 12, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

California women prisoners are learning to go “green” as they gain skills in garden design and environmental education through the award-winning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: —Alex Matthews, Beth Waitkus, Central California Women’s Facility, Chowchilla, Folsom Women’s Facility, FWF, GEELA, Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award, IGP, Insight Garden Program, Tylee Sewell, UC Berkeley

Inside Garden Program creates beauty in prison

January 18, 2018 by Wayne Boatwright

Volunteers, staff and the men in front of a garden

Dragonflies, bumblebees and Monarch butterflies are daily visitors to the H-Unit garden planted and maintained by the Insight Garden Program (IGP). … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cdcr, Haleh Zandi, IGP, Innovative Grants Program, Insight Garden Program, Planting Justice

Folsom Women’s Prison stages Shakespeare play

December 14, 2017 by Thomas Gardner

Shakespeare troupe at Folsom Women’s Facility

    Folsom Women’s Facility has recently become the first women’s prison in California to put on a stage production of a Shakespeare play, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: Insight Garden Program, Marin Shakespeare Company

Insight Garden Program: Going Green!

November 1, 2009 by JONATHAN HARRINGTON

(Part 3 in a three-part series) Concern for the environment and the current state of our economy are two major issues of the day. And a commitment to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: IGP, Insight Garden Program, Van Jones

Growing Lives Through Gardening

June 1, 2009 by John Harrington

Alicia Zaragoza working on potting new plants

Did you know that the Insight Garden Program (IGP) in H-Unit will be growing an organic vegetable garden that will provide organic vegetables to local … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: H-Unit yard, IGP, Insight Garden Program, Insight Prison Project, IPP, Stand-Up Program

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