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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Prison Book Club: The Power of Poetry

At Free Minds we see firsthand how the ability to express and convey ourselves authentically through reading and writing can be one of the most powerful tools for healing and…

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Featured Poem

Sing

Teach me Oh Sirens your songs
which lures the sea farers a’long
to attend you in a watery home
never to leave you alone

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Free Minds Book Club Students

Our Impact in 2025

1,800

MEMBERS SERVED

90%

EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION PLACEMENT RATE

458

POEMS WRITTEN

5%

Recidivism rate