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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Prison Book Club: Community, Connection, and Creative Expression
Through storytelling, reflection, and shared creativity, Free Minds helps our Prison Book Club members build resilience and envision new paths forward. Over the past quarter, this work has been strengthened…
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Featured Poem
It’s Within… Music
Music is like a virus that stimulates the mind and heart.
It’s like a tumor that grows, and grows, that has no cure.
Once you’re caught in its rapture, there’s no escaping it.
There’s no fighting it, only submitting to it.
Embracing its amazing feeling…
Our Impact in 2024
1,600
MEMBERS SERVED
97%
EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION PLACEMENT RATE
1,194
POEMS WRITTEN
8%
Recidivism rate
IN THE PRESS
