In late 2022, Kate Feigin, LCSW and PhD Candidate, a 17 year criminal justice professional, left her post at Mendocino County Jail to become the Director of Unconditional Freedom’s Prison Monastery Program. Kate strongly believes in the need for a new model for incarceration in the United States, and that the Prison Monastery is the most effective system in achieving this goal. The Prison Monastery is our radical concept is to restore the penitentiary to its roots; a place to contemplate and ...