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
Hope Without Work
Hope is a desire that leads nowhere without action.
Hope is wishing for something
that you didn’t put the work in to achieve,
so it didn’t happen.
Our Impact in 2024
1,600
MEMBERS SERVED
97%
EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION PLACEMENT RATE
1,194
POEMS WRITTEN
8%
Recidivism rate
IN THE PRESS
