A twelve-hour program focusing on a day in jail which was organized by the Kean College departments of Fine Arts, Sociology, and English provided students with some concepts of what a day in jail is really like, and helped them to understand the necessity of creativity--study, writing, acting, painting, or even protesting--for survival. Inspired by the literary and artistic works of a jail inmate sentenced for life, the program included the showing of a compelling videotaped interview of this man, an exhibit of prison art work, the playing of a record made by a prison singing group, speeches by three representatives of the Fortune Society--two by former prison inmates and the third by the society's director, a panel discussion, a series of dramatized scenes from prison life, and a reading presented by five members of a reformatory theater group. Since then, some projects involving creative writing classes, libraries, art classes, and drama productions have begun and are being enlarged upon at several New Jersey prisons. (JM)