Empowering incarcerated youths to write new chapters in their lives.
Free Minds uses books, creative writing, and peer support to awaken incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youths and adults to their own potential. Through creative expression, job readiness training, and violence prevention outreach, these poets achieve their education and career goals, and become powerful voices for change in the community.
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Award-Winning Short Film Based on Free Minds Poetry
“Lines,” an animated short film featuring poetry by six Free Minds members, won both the Audience Award and Jury Award for Best Animated Short at the Woodshole Film Festival.
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Power
When I think of power, I envision someone
Who can move mountains
In a poor, famine country he can build a fountain
Giving people free blissful water
Our Impact in 2020
MEMBERS SERVED
EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION PLACEMENT RATE
POEMS WRITTEN
Recidivism rate
IN THE PRESS
When prison doors swing open, these mentors open their arms
(The Christian Science Monitor)See Story
