Men Inmates Find Benefits Of Knitting

May 3, 2010 - PRLog -- The  project began with a handful of men incarcerated in JPRU  and now there is a waiting list for future sites and future participants.   Our plan is to encourage our knitters to "pay it forward" by teaching these life skills to other inmates. I presently have 3 volunteers who go to the prision weekly teaching life skills and knitting.  Yes, knitting.  I tell the inmates that knitting is the new yoga and they rave about the changes they have seen in their attitudes and relationships. After learning basic knitting skiills, a small, cuddly doll is made by the inmates and then presented in an in-person event to first responders in the community.  Concept is to give inmates the opportunity to do something good while incarcerated, to build a bridge to a future community.
Goal is to develop other sites.
http://www.explorehoward.com/community/71088/guys-dolls for complete newspaper article
http://knittingbehindbars.blogspot.com/ for details

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Knitting Behind Bars is a grass roots effort to bring the benefits of knitting to incarcerated men.
The craft of knitting brings social skills and communication benefit to prisoners.