Unincarcerated Productions, founded and predominantly led by justice-impacted creators, is launching Inside/Out Media Labs, a statewide initiative bringing professional media workforce development, digital storytelling training, and prison tablet-based educational content to prisons across the country with a primary emphasis initially on Washington State.
The program equips incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people with real media industry skills, delivers trauma-informed personal development curriculum, and builds bridges between mostly rural prison communities and the incarcerated population. This initiative is all about driving equitable workforce opportunity, uplifting communities impacted by incarceration, and fostering economic and cultural vitality in rural towns where prisons are major employers.
OUR PILOT PROJECTS
OUR KEY PRIORITIES
Expanding workforce development programs for justice-impacted people
Increasing opportunity for communities historically excluded and marginalized from living wage, highly sought after careers
Creating significantly better culture and rapport between incarcerated people and staff at prisons through the co-created engagement in media projects that have already proven to foster improved relations
Supporting innovative economic vitality in communities directly impacted by correctional facilities
Strengthening community cohesion, civic engagement, and public safety
Reducing stigma by changing the narrative and supporting belonging for
returning citizens