​Arizona Transformative Law and Social Justice Center, or ATLaS Justice Center, was created to harness the insights and passions of prison survivors by working directly with this marginalized population to populate and expand Arizona’s meager reentry resources and to re-imagine corrections and justice within the American system.

Freedom of Art Goes Live at The Walnut Gallery!

Maryanne Chisholm's gallery show will open on First Friday Artwalk, November 2, 2018 at The Walnut Gallery in downtown Louisville, CO and run for the month of November 2018.  Lincoln Keith's gallery show will open on the First Friday Artwalk, December 7, 2018 and run for the month of December 2018.  These shows will be organized and curated by our amazing Creative Director, Bri Berg.  Please stop by the gallery and support the vision of these gifted artists.  Thank you SO much to Geoff at the Walnut Gallery for believing in these artists and welcoming us into such a beautiful space.

​ATLaS Justice Center presents
ID: A Class in Self Discovery and Life Mapping

Mental fortitude, resilience, and organization are essential to successful reentry.ATLaS' ID class teaches prison survivors 4 main principles:
  • Institutional Detox: students develop an awareness of the effects of institutionalization (how prison has affected their way of thinking and behaviors, e.g. how you approach challenges and obstacles) and learn how to erase those effects within themselves;
  • Instinctual Defiance: students learn how instincts are formed;  students then learn how to identify harmful instincts they have acquired to survive in the prison environment; this class teaches students to develop individual strategies to replace those harmful instincts with instincts that will protect and enhance their freedom;
  • Identifying Direction: students learn the value of having direction.  Once they have identified the direction in which they want their lives to go, they learn how to map out the steps to reach their destination, through goal and life mapping, beginning with daily to-do's and culminating in a long-term dream map;
  • Impactful Dreaming: students are challenged to step outside the boxes that confine them and dream, to embrace and cultivate vulnerability, and begin to explore, harness, and actively map and pursue their dreams, taking them from mere pipe dreams into reality.     
  • Click here to hear what our students think.  

ATLaS' Transitional Housing and Communities: 
​ATLaS Houses and Holobiont Farms

Consequences, Accountability, Rehabilitation and Restoration:

Creating effective vehicles for successful reentry and reduced recidivism 
Reimagining a corrections system based on rehabilitation and restoration
ATLaS participates in an international advocacy coalition associated with the annual International Prisoner's Family Conference created to tackle issues related to the mass incarceration continuum:
  • Ensuring the availability of jail and prison face-to-face visitation
  • Ensuring family involvement in issues of medical and mental health care for prisoners following HIPPA guidelines
  • Ensuring independent oversight of the entire criminal justice system
  • Ensuring humane treatment of all prisoners and their families
  • Ensuring effective re-entry preparation for all prisoners and their families
Wondering what the mass incarceration continuum is?  Read the white paper drafted by the original members of the Advocacy In Action Coalition.
ATLaS Justice Center's goals include (1) teaching prison survivors to dream, to recapture dignity, and to envision a new and successful path for themselves; (2) rewriting the narrative of reentry and the meaning of a criminal record; and (3) ​dismantling counter-productive and dehumanizing stereotypes that pervade our communities.

​ATLaS uses its programs to:
  • disrupt the poverty to prison pipeline by developing job-based education, training, programming, and mentorship to and for incarcerated individuals;
  • expand the community resources available to individuals reentering society from prison through a small business incubator aimed at populating the reentry resource field;
  • address unique challenges Native American tribes face by helping them to identify criminal justice reform that is a cultural match to their tribe’s traditions; and
  • lessen the burdens of government relating to the provision of job-based education, training, programming, mentorship, and integration resources to and for incarcerated individuals.
ATLaS Justice Center is a 501(c)3 public charity nonprofit organization.  All donations are tax deductible.