A timeline of RTA's response throughout the pandemic

RTA was founded at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1996. 25 years later, RTA has grown into a robust prison arts program in New York with hundreds of successful alumni.

RTA begins working at Bedford Hills, New York State’s only maximum-security women’s prison.

RTA establishes the first modern dance program in New York State for incarcerated men.

The first fundraiser, a performance by RTA alumni at Playwrights Horizons, was a tremendous success.

Sing Sing closes its medium security section. Transferred RTA participants lobby the Department of Corrections to establish RTA at their new facility. Programs launch in Fishkill, Woodbourne & Green Haven...