Experimental Oasis project gives inmates ‘something different in prison’

Spring Creek Superintendent Bill Lapinskas poses with one of the murals in the segregation housing at the Correctional Center. (Photo by Anne Hillman/Alaska Public Media)The Department of Corrections is the largest mental health care provider in the state, and the administrators at Spring Creek Correctional Center want to make it one of the most effective, too.
They’re treating inmates who have mental illnesses with new innovations — porches and paintings.
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