Coping in the margins
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January 4, 2017
PEN TO PAPER – A teen in youth detention, on a path to express a new future for himself, composes prose during a creative writing session. – Photo by Anna Ferdinand
Four young men file into the classroom of the Skagit County Juvenile Detention center across the way from the county court house in Mount Vernon on a Wednesday after Christmas.
Matt Malyon, a chaplain with the jail and juvenile detention center through Tierra Nueva and creator of the Underground Writing program, sets up his handouts on tables. The four teens in bright orange sweatshirts and sweatpants pull out black notebooks with Underground Writing stickers on the front brought in by a young female guard.
Malyon inquires about Christ-mas in the facility for the teens who joke about how fu...
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