Women held at the Bayamón women's correctional facility saw their own written confinement stories turned into a dance performance staged inside the institution on a Friday in October.^[1] The piece came out of FREEDOM TIME, a collaboration between Puerto Rico's Department of Correction and Rehabilitation, the University of Puerto Rico, and the California organization Dancing Through Prison Walls.^[2] Ten professional artists from California, New York and Ohio worked with students in UPR's Program of University Studies for Incarcerated People, who developed choreography from stories written during their studies.^[3] For the first time, the authors themselves performed alongside the dancers; ten confined people took part.^[4][5] FREEDOM TIME staged two presentations in Puerto Rico: the first on 15 October 2026 at the UPR Río Piedras theater, followed by the performance inside the Bayamón facility.^[6][7] The department behind the project, led by DCR Secretary Julie Gómez Gómez, frames the work as part of rehabilitation and social reintegration.^[8][9] Dancing Through Prison Walls was founded in California in 2016 under artistic director Suchi Branfman, and builds projects connecting incarcerated people with artists outside correctional institutions.^[10][11]