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
Memory & Thoughts
It’s right there but I can’t grab it,
it was so beautiful when I had it,
I’ve hung my head down because
like the clouds in the sky when I tried to gather it up to something
it dissipated into nothing
Our Impact in 2025
1,800
MEMBERS SERVED
90%
EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION PLACEMENT RATE
458
POEMS WRITTEN
5%
Recidivism rate
IN THE PRESS
