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Prison Writing Program

With plenty of time on their hands, incarcerated inmates need a chance to be able to express themselves in a healthy and creative way. 

The Prison Writing Program, founded in 1971, works across the country to help bring pen, paper and instruction to hundreds of inmates willing to put their thoughts down on paper.  The Prison Writing Program believes in the rehabilitative power of the written word and the program wishes to provide a place where inmates can express them selves freely and to be able to share these thoughts with others. 

The Prison Writing Program provides skilled writing teachers and sponsors an annual writing contest, publishes a free handbook for prisoners, provides on-on-one mentoring to prisoners and seeks to ge the works either published or to be read aloud at literary readings. 

 

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