There’s a frenzy of madness and tangled limbs on the basketball court until someone shoots for a goal. Then it’s all eyes on the ball as everyone holds their breath, watching its graceful airborne arc ...

A special program within the Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma is helping connect children with their parents who are incarcerated. It's called "Girl Scouts Beyond Bars." Joining us on the Arca ...

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The End. That’s the way all stories finish, whether they’re typed out or not. And end is exactly what Karen Lausa’s Words Beyond Bars program did, after serving Colorado’s prison population through ...

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The University of Wisconsin’s Odyssey Beyond Bars Program, a program that aims to help educate students incarcerated in Wisconsin prisons, received the Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Eisenberg ...

Lea Nepomuceno, 17, was a powerful voice for students during her one-year term on the San Diego Unified School District Board of Trustees. It ended in June following her graduation from Scripps Ranch ...

ST. LOUIS — “Girl Scouts Beyond Bars helped a lot with me getting to see my mom. Some people have parents in jail and don’t get to visit them at all,” Amber Rush said. While she was in jail [my sister ...