CT Poet and lawyer to release spoken word album about his incarceration
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts on his spoken word poetry album, House of Unending.
WBAL Report on Freedom Reads
Vincent Schiraldi, Maryland Secretary of Juvenile Services, spoke about the impact of Freedom Reads at a Freedom Library opening at the Dorsey Run Correctional Facility in Jessup, MD.
Books ignite the belief in a positive future
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts and Maryland Secretary of Juvenile Services Vincent Schiraldi discuss the impact of books ahead of Freedom Library openings in Maryland juvenile and correctional facilities.
Maryland's first Freedom Libraries to open in adult and youth correctional facilities
Freedom Reads opens 15 Freedom Libraries in Maryland, bringing 7,500 books to incarcerated readers.
Freedom Reads Donates Books to St. Brides and Indian Creek Correctional Center
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts speaks at the opening of Freedom Libraries at St. Brides Correctional Center in Chesapeake, Virginia.
Former Virigina inmate installs 500-book 'Freedom Libraries' in Chesapeake prison housing units
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts reflects on opening 24 Freedom Libraries inside the same system where he was formerly incarcerated.
The Poet Writing on Prison Underwear
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts discusses how he uses paper made out of donated prison underwear to express a truth about the state of incarceration in America.
UVa 'Visiting Room Project' provides a look into life behind bars
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Freedom Reads Founder & CEO, will give the keynote speech at the University of Virginia School of Law’s event featuring “The Visiting Room Project.”
National nonprofit brings books to Incarcerated Mainers
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts reflects on the power of books and Freedom Libraries to create community.
Emerson Prison Initiative to hold conference about the benefits of college in prison
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Founder & CEO of Freedom Reads, will deliver the keynote address to the Emerson Prison Initiative Conference.
To reach incarcerated individuals, this book had to bend the rules of design
James Goggin and Forest Young discuss the design features of Redaction, a book by poet Reginald Dwayne Betts and painter Titus Kaphar, that invite the reader to interact in a real way with the question of mass incarceration in America.
Freedom Reads sets up 'micro-libraries' at Windham prison
Freedom Reads opened eight Freedom Libraries in Maine this week at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham, the Women's Center, and the Southern Maine Women's Reentry Center.