Empowering incarcerated youths to write new chapters in their lives.
Free Minds uses the transformative tools of books, writing, and peacebuilding to create a community of support, assisting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youths and adults to achieve their education, career, and life goals, write new chapters in their lives, and become powerful voices for change.
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Spring Highlights from the Prison Book Club
Here at Free Minds, we believe in the healing power of creativity, literacy, and community. In our Prison Book Club this past quarter, we have put this belief into action…
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Featured Poem
Seeds
I’m a seed
Enduring forecasts of mystery.
Whether precipitation or sun rays,
Win or loss,
Take it all with consistency.
Our Impact in 2024
1,600
MEMBERS SERVED
97%
EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION PLACEMENT RATE
1,194
POEMS WRITTEN
8%
Recidivism rate
IN THE PRESS
