MAR 2024
“It didn’t matter what race you were, what clique you were in, whatever was going on in the yard … That, to me, was the most powerful part of
the whole operation.”
Writing Workshops offer a refuge In Oregon’s prisons
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR | READ
MAR 2023
“… THERE IS A LOT OF FEAR ASSOCIATED WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE INCARCERATED FROM THE OUTSIDE...”
Tracy D. Schlapp and Danny J. Wilson on Cultivating Writing Communities Inside Oregon Prisons
PEN AMERICA: Prison and Justice Writing | LISTEN TO PODCAST
MAR 2023
“Reading this collection as a reflection of our culture back on us, in the starkest of terms, suggests creativity and care might be the antidote to so much of what plagues us. Prisons Have a Long Memory is a pharmakon–offering both illness and its cure.”
On Bridgeworks Oregon’s “Prisons Have A Long Memory: Life Inside Oregon’s Oldest Prison,”
PEN AMERICA: Prison and Justice Writing | READ BOOK REVIEW
MAR 2023
“What Tracy and Danny brought in was some structure. It wasn’t structure like you’d find on a college campus, but the idea that we could direct our writings, or that we could write about a topic as a group and then be able to talk about our writings as a group, and talk about editing, talk about messaging, talking about how are we answering these questions from these middle schoolers.”
Oregon State Penitentiary writers answer children’s questions in “Prisons Have A Long Memory”
Oregon Public Broadcasting, Think Out Loud | LISTEN
FEB 2023
“Intergenerational trauma and forced assimilation wreaked havoc among the Native American communities—my family was no exception. My grandma Rose Owlchild was the first of our family to go to boarding school. She was kidnapped from her mom and dad and taken to Chemawa Indian School in Oregon from her home in Montana”
Prisons Have A Long Memory, “Boarding School Inheritance” by Nolan Briden, Oregon Humanities, Beyond the Margins | READ
JULY 2020
“What started as a project to put on a couple concerts at Oregon prisons, ala Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison 52 years ago, turned into a labor of love…”
Musician, artist find prison shows quite satisfying, Portland Tribune | READ
JUNE 2020
Adam Carpinelli interviews Danny Wilson and Tracy Schlapp founders of the Folsom50 project looking at Johnny Cash’s work around prison reform 50 years later.
KBOO Radio, Prison Pipeline | LISTEN
SEP 2019
“It’s a beautiful thing,” he says. “They don’t do things like this in other places. It feels like we’re a part of society — that we feel wanted.”
Adult in Custody Fortune, Eugene Weekly | READ
JULY 2018
“It heals our souls,” said Austin Clark, a 27-year-old serving a life sentence for murder who said Cash's songs speak to lifestyle choices he can relate to. “We’ll still be talking about this in a year, or ten.”
Adult in Custody Austin Clark, Oregon Live | READ
MAY 2018
“I’ve been in prison six years... So it’s nice that somebody’s actually taking time to come into the medium side, behind all the gates, and hang out with a bunch of girls that are just rowdy and are excited for the entertainment.”
Adult in Custody Mary Pierce, Oregon Public Broadcasting | READ