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Seeing and Being Seen

By James Davis III, Communications Associate, Freedom Reads
Freedom Reads staff and supporters, and residents at California Medical Facility putting books on the shelves of a Freedom Library

Since when do funders help do the work of going into prisons to bring Freedom Libraries Inside?

I mean help as in lifting heavy boxes to sort the thousands of books that live on the beautifully handcrafted bookshelves that Freedom Reads is founded upon. But that is just what happened at California Medical Facility (CMF), staff and supporters, together, opening Freedom Libraries for the sick and injured prisoners of CMF.

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