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Poetry Helps Youth At A Juvenile Detention Center Find Peace by PBS NewsHour

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Poetry Helps Youth At A Juvenile Detention Center Find Peace

by PBS NewsHour

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Length 7 minutes

Language English

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Summary

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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