{"id":96340,"date":"2025-12-16T05:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96340\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:43:08","slug":"nonprofit-turns-virtual-reality-into-rehabilitation-inside-california-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/96340\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit turns virtual reality into rehabilitation inside California prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles-based nonprofit Creative Acts is using virtual reality headsets to help prepare for life outside prison walls. Incarcerated men use VR headsets for exercises ranging from experiencing foreign countries to practicing real-world scenarios they\u2019ll face when released, leading to a reported reduction in prison violence.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles-based nonprofit Creative Acts is using virtual reality headsets to help prepare for life outside prison walls. Incarcerated men use VR headsets for exercises ranging from experiencing foreign countries to practicing real-world scenarios they\u2019ll face when released, leading to a reported reduction in prison violence.<\/p>\n<p>                    Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<br \/>\n                    \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Add AP News on Google <\/p>\n<p>        Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.<\/p>\n<p>            Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles-based nonprofit Creative Acts is using virtual reality headsets to help prepare for life outside prison walls.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,47,36180,974,3469,3480,1970,52858],"class_list":{"0":"post-96340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-media-api-video","13":"tag-national","14":"tag-philanthropy","15":"tag-prisons","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-virtual-and-augmented-reality"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}