The Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) brings those impacted by the justice system and the U-M community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth. PCAP holds creative arts workshops inside Michigan prisons, holds an annual art exhibition, and publishes a literary journal of creative writing by incarcerated people, among other programs.
The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, based in the U-M Law School, collects documents and information from civil rights cases across the United States to promote greater understanding of historical and contemporary civil rights litigation, including categories for criminal justice, jail and prison conditions, juvenile institutions, immigration, and indigent defense.
Semester in Detroit, based in the Residential College, transforms U-M students through reciprocal relationships with the people, organizations, and neighborhoods of Detroit. Semester in Detroit also co-organizes the Detroiters Speak series, providing free and public community classroom events to learn more about Detroit’s past and present.
The National Registry of Exonerations, a coalition project that includes the U-M Law School, provides detailed information about every known exoneration in the United States since 1989–cases in which a person was wrongly convicted of a crime and later cleared of all the charges based on new evidence of innocence.
Incarceration and the Law, the leading casebook on incarceration, examines the complex legal regime that defines prisoners’ rights. This open-source website includes judicial opinions, statutes, case summaries and documents, and many additional resources. Lead author: Margo Schlanger of UM Law School.
Seven Last Words of the Unarmed is a multi-movement choral work based on the last words of seven African American men killed by police or other state authority figures. The University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club premiered the piece; visit this site for a documentary and curricular resources related to police violence.
