The upcoming screening of a prison documentary can change the way you think about life on the inside.
Agata Popęda September 25, 2025
It started as a volunteer program, Empathy in Action, that takes willing civilians inside the Correctional Training Facility, a “level two” prison in Soledad, to engage in raw and honest conversations and educational activities with inmates—those determined to work on themselves by participating in this longterm, weekly exercise.
A couple of years in, the initiative’s leader, Megan McDrew, was able to not only produce, with the help of Humans Being Media, Going Inside: Empathy in Action, about the experience, but also create a physical location for the initiative: Transformative Justice Center in downtown Monterey. Her goal is to make people realize that people in prison are just like us, usually victims of their past and circumstances, and that they deserve better than being ignored.
