We have encountered many formerly incarcerated people who grew up living on the streets. As children they had little supervision and fell through the cracks without their basic childhood needs met (food, shelter, education, active parenting, and safe community).

Rather than intervene to provide resources that foster safety and combat poverty, the government and society often wait until these kids act out in crime, and then simply lock them up.

‍The Carrier Pigeon Post seeks to change the “bad egg” narrative by gathering and archiving the childhood stories of those incarcerated using non-coercive questions.

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