History of the ATP
The Arizona Transformation Project (ATP) is a learning community composed of incarcerated individuals, ASU faculty, and graduate students who collectively guide and sustain all work related to the POINT Model. ATP members collaborate within their respective facilities to ensure that CCS initiatives remain grounded in lived experience, ethical practice, and shared responsibility.
ATP began in 2016 at the Arizona State Prison Complex–Florence following Arizona’s first Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program course. After the course concluded, inside students and facilitators chose to continue working together, believing that meaningful transformation required engagement beyond the classroom. That commitment laid the foundation for ATP, which began with five incarcerated men, one ASU faculty member, and one graduate student.
