Arts in Corrections is a program that allows people experiencing incarceration to create self-awareness through visual, literary, media, performing, and folk and traditional arts opportunities.

Arts in Corrections is a program that allows people experiencing incarceration to create self-awareness through visual, literary, media, performing, and folk and traditional arts opportunities. Arts in Corrections is a partnership between the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the California Arts Council, designed to prepare incarcerated people success upon release, enhance rehabilitative goals, and improve the safety and environment of CDCR institutions. Despite the sharp decline of arts programs in prison during the early 2000s, since 2017 the CAC covers all adult state prisons in California by operating programs in 36 facilities across 20 different counties. Arts in Corrections creates a pathway for persons in the care of CDCR to feel and be seen as human. Arts in Corrections programming aims for persons in the care of CDCR to define themselves beyond the condition in which they find themselves. Arts in Corrections programs are led by experienced artists and specialized organizations, focusing on topics used for strengthening rehabilitation and encouraging healing. The goal of Arts in Corrections is to expose people experiencing incarceration to art programs where they can express themselves therapeutically through drawing, creative writing, dance, poetry, theater, culture and other artistic methods.