By ANNE MARIE HUNTER
Kansas City Star 

'Voiceless' inmates find healing through poetry program

 

March 16, 2018



OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — For the past two decades, the Johnson County Library Incarcerated Services and Arts in Prison Writing programs have opened the world of literacy and writing to incarcerated juveniles and adults throughout Kansas.

These programs not only lighten the hopelessness and loss of identity experienced by many inmates, but they also provide opportunities for them to share their stories with an audience who might not ever hear their voices another way.

"These programs make a community connection with people who are traditionally invisible," Johnson County Library Incarcer...



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