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A Smuggled Book Changed His Life. Now He’s Built 500 Prison Libraries.

Summary by The Philadelphia Tribune
Reginald Dwayne Betts carjacked a man who was asleep in his car in a parking lot in Fairfax County, Virginia. Betts, who was 16 at the time, was tried as an adult and spent nearly a decade in state prison,…

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A smuggled book changed his life. Now he’s built 500 prison libraries.

Reginald Dwayne Betts carjacked a man who was asleep in his car in a parking lot in Fairfax County, Virginia. Betts, who was 16 at the time, was tried as an adult and spent nearly a decade in state prison,…

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A smuggled book changed his life. Now he’s built 500 prison libraries

Reginald Dwayne Betts was locked up as a teenager for carjacking. Books were his escape, and he went on to be a poet, lawyer and founder of Freedom Reads.

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