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The Power of Words
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Exchange for Change believes in the power of written partnerships to promote dialogue and impact social change.
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We facilitate anonymous writing exchanges between classrooms test in correctional and court-mandated facilities as well as classrooms in high schools and universities. E4C has graduated nearly 1,500 students from a variety of writing courses ranging from legal writing, creative writing, non-fiction, journalism, songwriting and much more, trained 70+ volunteers, and expanded our program from one facility to 4 across the Florida Department Of Corrections and Federal Bureau of Prisons as well as Juvenile Detention Centers.
Interested in reading some of our talented students' work? Here's a collection that showcases dreams, thoughts, & creativity and self-advocacy.
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CBSMIAMI joined Exchange for Change at Dade Correctional Institution for a Spring Graduation Ceremony in May. Check out the story here.
In a Florida prison, a poet grapples with power and oppression
In Martinez’s work, power is a trap; being ruled by it is a trap, and wielding it is, too, a dynamic that he said he confronts every day in prison. “Black and Latino correctional officers are oppressing their own people. They’re trapping each other,” he wrote in a letter to the NewsHour. “You got brothers and sisters struggling between remaining human and becoming a beast. It’s a moral balance daily.”
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"The Crying, the Laughing, The Hurt," A talent showcase inside prison walls
Outside of his dreams, Juan Esquival hadn’t held his children since 1999. “Freedom,” said Elliot Ross, doing time for a string of robberies before his 22nd birthday, “is for my kids not to make the same mistake I did in life.” After 18 years in prisons across Florida, as he tuned up, guitarist Ronald “Bam” Threet said he knew exactly how much time he had left on the inside: eight months, four hours and 35 minutes.
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