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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Reentry Book Club: Fall Accomplishments from the Free Minds Family

This season we are celebrating the tenacity and mutual support of Free Minds and its members, who have made tremendous achievements despite many challenges  this past year. Free Minds members…

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Featured Poem

Waiting

I’m waiting for a decision from the judge,
which could come any day,
I feel like it’s been longer than 31 and a half years,
More like forever and a day.

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Free Minds Book Club Students

Our Impact in 2023

1404

MEMBERS SERVED

97%

EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION PLACEMENT RATE

1546

POEMS WRITTEN

2%

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