Here’s How I Use My Story to Teach Incarcerated Kids That Writing Matters [themarshallproject.org]
By Bobby Bostic, Illustration: Douglas Lopes/The Marshall Project, The Marshall Project, October 20, 2023 R ecently, at one of the writing workshops that I teach at three juvenile lockups in and around my hometown of St. Louis, one of my students posed a provocative question: “Why should I write about changing the world when the world doesn’t care about me?” The tall, lanky 16-year-old asked his question in a slow, rebellious twang that reminded me of how I spoke as a child. “You should...