Prison art and the Koestler Trust
They are the UK’s best-known prison arts charity. They award, exhibit and sell artworks by offenders, detainees and high security patients.
The Koestler Trust’s aims are:
- to help offenders lead more positive lives by motivating them to participate in the creative arts;
- to demonstrate the power of arts activity in the criminal justice system.
The Koestler Awards attract around 5,000 entries a year from inmates of prisons, young offender institutions, secure hospitals and immigration removal centres across the UK, as well as offenders supervised by probation and youth offending services.