A Free Mind Cannot Be Confined

I'll admit, when I first signed on to work with Arts Holding Hands and Hearts of CultureTrust, I was more than a bit nervous about going behind bars to teach teenage boys in the juvenile justice system. Sure, I had been a troubled child and spent my fair share of time in the system, my youth misspent. Somehow, though, I'd managed to avoid the rumored perils of "juvie" by way of residential treatment facilities and teen shelters. Hence my adult apprehension to cross over into this culturally vilified territory. Would these boys be violent? Ignorant? Rude? Disrespectful? Would I be putting myself at risk?

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