Cell Block Brushes: Art Therapy-Based Murals for Indigenous and Incarcerated Men in Federal Correctional Services (Pinceaux de bloc cellulaire : peintures murales fondées sur l'art-thérapie avec des hommes autochtones incarcérés dans les services correctionnels fédéraux)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Facilitated by a Kanien'kehá:ka First Nations art therapist and framed by her cultural knowledge, this article explores the impact of co-creating two murals on the identity development, wellness and pro-social interaction for 32 Indigenous male participants within a Canadian Federal correctional institution. This project aimed to address the Indigenous overrepresentation within correctional systems and the potential impacts of colonization on crime, including addiction, trauma and other mental health conditions. By correlating court findings with research on cultural safety for Indigenous populations, this project suggested that healing the impacts of colonization and crime can be connected to cultural accessibility and multigenerational trauma awareness in sentencing and programming. As such, the following participatory mural making project was presented and delivered by and for Indigenous, incarcerated men. Bringing cultural knowledge, teachings from the land and drawing from the ancestral wisdom of the participants, the mural was created as a space to explore the interconnected web of relationships between the self, community and the land. The outcome of the experience seemed to suggest the importance of setting a therapeutic frame for mural making as well as the benefit of cultural access, symbolism and community building for Indigenous men within the correctional setting.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".