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
A Place
The walls extend for what seems an eternity,
yet there’s a claustrophobic aura to this place.
Cold and dark
You hear wails and screams all around
Voices that you can’t identify
But they are here
Our Impact in 2025
1,800
MEMBERS SERVED
90%
EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION PLACEMENT RATE
458
POEMS WRITTEN
5%
Recidivism rate
IN THE PRESS
