When Reginald Dwayne Betts was imprisoned at 16 for carjacking, he says books got him through his sentence. Now a new library exhibit highlights his mission to bring books to other prisoners.
was 16, he was sentenced to prison for committing a carjacking. He survived his sentence, he says, by reading.
“The library installation is an opportunity for the world to see something as beautiful that was created first for people in prison to make an argument, a case for the need for beauty in prisons and to make an argument and a case for the way that books provide people with a resource to access dignity and affirm their own dignity,” he says.” for people in prison because they allow them to encounter experiences that they aren’t able to behind those walls.
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