Incarcerated youths writing new chapters in their lives

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

Juneteenth Day

No need to tell me
that I am free
As still I sit here
In these chains

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Free Minds Book Club Students

Our Impact in 2024

1,600

MEMBERS SERVED

97%

EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION PLACEMENT RATE

1,194

POEMS WRITTEN

8%

Recidivism rate