How Playgrounds Become Prison Yards
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Our Healing Wounds program brings hope and healing to those behind bars. Many incarcerated individuals feel forgotten, isolated, and without support. A simple letter filled with encouragement, faith, and compassion can remind them that they are not alone and that their lives still carry purpose and value.
Through handwritten notes, we aim to uplift spirits, restore dignity, and create a bridge of kindness that breaks through prison walls. Every letter is a powerful act of love — reminding our brothers and sisters in prison that they are seen, heard, and deeply cared for.
Becoming a member of “The Lost Boys” Project will allow you to a direct hand in the change we are facilitating. Organizations or Individuals can become members at various levels to help support our cause.
💡 Why Membership Matters
Your membership fuels our mission — funding vital programs, outreach, and services that change lives. Every level makes a difference, and together we build a community of hope, support, and transformation.
About Us
This project is an ethnographic research initiative that explores the systemic relationship between public education and mass incarceration, with a specific examination of the experiences of young Black men in correctional facilities and the connection between the procedures practiced in the American Public School System and correctional facilities. To extrapolate just a bit we are searching to make connections between the experiences black men had in public schools and how that led them to incarceration— this phenomenon is widely known as the school-to-prison pipeline.
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