Free Minds Members Changing the Narrative on Book TV!

C-SPAN's Book TV produced a segment documenting our book club on the education unit at the DC Jail, with Free Minds Book Club Facilitators Clint Smith and Stacey Houston.

A close up of hands holding open a copy of the book The Things They Carried

Pen-Spilled Emotions

By JC

As my pen spills an emotion I don’t know if I’m physically

Able to verbalize the words that are written on my heart

They are caught because I don’t want to release them

With ill intentions, but knowing the truth sometimes hurts...

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In The Press

‘Books and brotherhood’: Her club aims to help prisoners start new chapters in their lives (Washington Post Magazine)

DC lawmakers proposing to give convicted felons voting rights while in prison
(WUSA 9)

Free Minds Book Club: Empowerment (Postcards and Authors)

Poetry Beyond Bars: Poem-A-Day Highlights Work of Incarcerated Writers (Book Riot)

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