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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Jail Book Club Coordinator & Co-facilitator We are seeking an avid reader and writer with excellent facilitation skills to provide essential support for our Jail Book Club program. This includes…

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Featured Poem

Life with Poetry

Your life is the story that I have been looking for,
that voice and vision in which makes me see you in me.

Day after day, year after year
dying to be free, and then you appear
so beautifully expressing the meaning
of divine unity.

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Free Minds Book Club Students

Our Impact in 2023

1404

MEMBERS SERVED

97%

EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION PLACEMENT RATE

1130

POEMS WRITTEN

2%

Recidivism rate