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May 6, 2024 - Reginald Dwayne Betts and Porsha Olayiwola
When Reginald Dwayne Betts was 16 years old, he was an honors student. He was also arrested for carjacking. Prosecuted as an adult, he spent eight years in a Virginia prison, existing among grown up men. What got him through those years behind bars? Books.
Betts left prison a poet; he then became an Ivy League-educated Lawyer and now he’s on a mission to bring libraries into prisons with a first-of-its kind organization called “Freedom Reads.” He joins The Culture Show to talk about how he aims to radically transform access to literature for people behind bars.
From there we continue the…
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