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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The Second Look Law: A Safer, Stronger DC
Free Minds is launching The Second Look Law: A Safer, Stronger DC, a compilation of stories of Free Minds members who returned home through DC’s “second look” legislation, the Incarceration…
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Featured Poem
Free Minds
Being 38 years in a system of corruption, chaos, and confusions,
Sometimes put me in a state of delirium and sheer delusions.
Can’t believe in some of the crazy stuff I’ve seen behind these prison walls,
Reality sets in with the calm moments of the watch’n
the homies on the handball courts hitt’n balls.
Our Impact in 2025
1,800
MEMBERS SERVED
90%
EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION PLACEMENT RATE
458
POEMS WRITTEN
5%
Recidivism rate
IN THE PRESS
