Let me introduce you to Debbie Lieberman. She works at Pitzker College's Center for California Cultural and Social Issues. Her students worked with incarcerated youth in LA county to put together a audio piece dedicated to President Elect Barack Obama.
Here is an excerpt from her letter to Youth Radio, and the audio piece itself. This election has changed us all.
 

"One of our primary programs is a local community immersion wherein students engage with local community issues in the classroom and through internships. As part of their internship component, two students this semester designed and taught an alternative program at the
high school within the local juvenile probation camp, working with incarcerated youth ages 13-18 from all over LA county. The fundamental goal of CCCSI and Pitzer College's programs in Camp AP is to create space for humanity, creativity and self-expression in an unjust and failing system of marginalization, discrimination and dehumanization.  By bringing together university students and incarcerated youth, Borrowed Voices creates mutually educational and beneficial relationships between these typically separated populations. The philosophy of the Pitzer programs at Camp AP allows both  youth and facilitators to be teachers and students; this exchange of life experiences creates empathy across boundaries and also validates different kinds of knowledge and learning.

This particular program was called EmpOUR LA and was designed around activities promoting self-awareness and community while exploring themes of violence, politics, history, racism, education and social change. Our class created a final project which is an audio recording of their messages for change. One of the units of the program focused on the election, the local propositions and avenues within the political process for making change and this collective letter to Obama is the final product of their learning."

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