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Healing Words: Creative Writing Programs as Therapy for Kids in Detention
Coosa Valley Youth Detention Classroom. Photo by Ryan Schill. ANNISTON, Ala. -- Mercy Pilkington’s classroom, at first glance, seems like any other in the nation’s public school system. Novels penned...
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California Teacher Uses Writing to Inspire Incarcerated Youth
JJIEJohnny Kovatch and former InsideOUT Writers students in 2010. LOS ANGELES — The walls of California’s juvenile halls act as a barrier to a world most people will never experience or understand....
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Programming, Connections Help California Youth Deal With Demons of Reentry
Photos by Marisa ZoccoThe entrance to the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride LOS ANGELES — Near a wooden “Death Row” signpost towering in an orange-lit fog, 25 young people huddled together, smiling and...
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InsideOUT Writers: Community, Compassion, Multitudes
The Youth Today/InsideOUT Writers series these past two years has been a critical reflection on the impact of the American justice system on our youth, how these youth learn to navigate through that...
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