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Founder’s Take: What does it mean to bring something beautiful into a prison?

By Reginald Dwayne Betts, Founder & CEO of Freedom Reads
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts, front row in a fedora, with audience members at Otisville Correctional Facility in New York holding copies of Dwayne's poetry collection FELON.
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts, front row in a fedora, with audience members at Otisville Correctional Facility in New York holding copies of Dwayne's poetry collection FELON.

I tell people: several days after the Freedom Reads team opened three Freedom Libraries at Otisville Correctional Facility in late August, I was still unable to let go of how much of a wonder it was.

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