> Read about the program and book in the Wall Street Journal
> Read more on the Community Arts Network
Other Books:
- Art and Upheaval
- Art in Other Places
- Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts
- Building Commons and Community
- Crossroads Comics #1
- Doing Time in the Garden
- Ecological Design and Building Schools
- New Creative Community
- Performing Communities
- Undoing the Silence
- Works of Heart
Doing Time in the Garden
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This is the first comprehensive guide to creating in-prison and post-release horticultural training programs. Author James Jiler combines an engaging personal account of running a highly successful horticultural vocation program at the largest jail complex in the United States, with a practical guide to starting and managing prison and re-entry gardening programs.
Jiler directs the Greenhouse Project, a horticultural job-training program for male and female inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island jail system. He also directs the GreenTeam of ex-offenders who work with community groups and institutions on landscape related projects throughout New York State.
Jiler’s humor and heartfelt stories about prison community and clear explanations of what works broaden this book’s appeal to all social activists, especially those involved with at-risk populations and community gardens.