Why Reginald Dwayne Betts makes prison libraries out of real wood
“I think books are a dignity-affirming instrument,” says Reginald Dwayne Betts.
A poet and lawyer, Dwayne Betts is on a mission to put more libraries inside prisons with the nonprofit Freedom Reads.
“All I was around was concrete and steel and plastic,” he says about his time behind bars. “I never got to see a tree, let alone to see wood where I lived.”
This clip comes from Inside Story. Our TV show, developed by formerly incarcerated people, examines the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system. See full episodes in our Inside Story playlist.
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