Rehabilitation Through the Arts

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Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) was founded by Katherine Vockins in 1996 in Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York, and now operates in six men's and women's, maximum and medium security New York State prisons: Sing Sing, Bedford Hills, Woodbourne, Green Haven, Fishkill and Taconic. RTA is the trade name used by Prison Communities International Inc, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization.^[1] RTA brings art workshops in theatre, music, dance, visual arts, writing and poetry behind the walls to over 230 incarcerated men and women.^[2]