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Beyond Bars celebrates writing and writers reaching out from inside prison walls

States Newsroom · October 28, 2026

Louise K. Waakaa’igan, a poet and member of the Anishinaabe (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) tribe in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, spent 16 years at the Shakopee women’s prison on the outskirts of the Twin Cities. Waakaa’igan was one of the 19 writers featured at a program called Beyond Bars: Voices…

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Beyond Bars celebrates writing and writers reaching out from inside prison walls

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