Book Club for Youth in Federal Prison

Dear Free Minds Friends, We are so thrilled that spring has finally reached Washington DC! Last time we updated you, our winter book order was just going out, and our incarcerated Free Minds members were beginning to read The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place by Hill Harper as part of our Books Across the Miles (BAM!)...

Dear Free Minds Friends, Happy New Year! We are looking forward to continuing our mission of educating and inspiring incarcerated youth in 2013, and we couldn’t do it without your support! As many of you know, our members begin their involvement with Free Minds through our weekly Book Club sessions at the DC jail,...

Dear Free Minds Friends, Happy Fall!  In the months since our last update, we’ve had a lot going on here at Free Minds.  As you know, our work begins with the Book Club at the DC Jail, but it does not end there.  In our weekly Book Club sessions, teenage inmates learn to read and appreciate...

Dear Free Minds Friends, Thanks to your support, Books Across the Miles (BAM!), our ‘virtual book club,’ is about to turn one and is still going strong!  Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop begins in a small room on the juvenile block of the DC Jail, where 16- and 17-year-old boys meet every...

Dear Friends of Free Minds, Thanks to your support, “Books Across the Miles,”  or “BAM!” continues to be a big hit!  Our “virtual” book club allows us to share books with 125 of our Free Minds members in Continuing Support, young men from DC now incarcerated in federal prisons...

Friends of Free Minds, Thanks to your generosity our new initiative "Books Across the Miles" BAM! has been a great success so far! A "virtual" book club for 125 of our Free Minds members, young men incarcerated in federal prisons scattered throughout the country, can now enjoy reading the same book and engaging in written...