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PBS NewsHour. Poetry helps youth at a juvenile detention center find peace /

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 w...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Arlington, VA : NewsHour Productions, 2016.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Betts, Reginald Dwayne, > 1980-
Cook County (Ill.). > Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
Cook County (Ill.). > Juvenile Temporary Detention Center
Juvenile delinquents > Education > Illinois > Cook County.
Literacy programs > Illinois > Cook County.
Ex-convicts > United States > Biography.
Prisoners as authors > Illinois > Cook County.
Jeunes délinquants > Éducation > Illinois > Cook.
Ex-détenus > États-Unis > Biographies.
Écrivains prisonniers > Illinois > Cook.
Ex-convicts
Juvenile delinquents > Education
Literacy programs
Prisoners as authors
Illinois > Cook County
United States
Biographies
Television news programs
Television news programs.
Téléjournaux.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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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.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed August 13, 2019).
Physical Description:1 online resource (8 minutes)
Playing Time:00:07:53