Juvenile Probation >Detention >Beat Within Detention Services Bureau - The Beat Within The Beat Within is a program that encourages detained juveniles to write about their life experiences so they can influence other juveniles and improve their own reading and writing skills. Detainees write about their true feelings about law, police, drugs, gang life, and many other problems facing our youth. Their essays and poems are published once a month in the magazine The Beat Within. Juveniles from detention centers in California, Virginia, New York, and Rhode Island contribute to this magazine.

For the latest issue of The Beat Within visit: thebeatwithin.org

Here are some examples of what local juveniles have produced:

In My Eyes   |   I Can and Will   |   Back in the Day