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This Chicago program connects incarcerated youth to poetry

Author: PBS NewsHour

Narrator: PBS NewsHour

Unabridged: 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/11/2016


Synopsis

Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy aims to help troubled youths in Chicago’s Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center address their personal issues by writing poetry about their circumstances and upbringing. Jeffrey Brown talks with poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, who turned around his life with writing and education after eight and a half years in prison.

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