Freedom Reads
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Countering with literature what prison does to the spirit. Freedom begins with a book.
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Imani Perry's "South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation" won the inaugural Inside Literary Prize - a collaboration between grantees Freedom Reads and Center for Justice Innovation, w/ National Book Foundation and Lori Feathers. brooklyneagle.com/articles/2024/…
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Dwayne Betts joined Jared Bowen on The Culture Show | GBH to talk about the inaugural #InsideLiteraryPrize 📚 wgbh.org/podcasts/the-c…
This summer, Freedom Reads welcomed 5 interns to the team. We are so grateful for their contributions! The interns share their favorite recent reads, what they worked on this summer & what they will take away from their time at Freedom Reads on the blog ⬇️freedomreads.org/news/blog/meet…
After seeing "Felon" — a one-man show by Dwayne Betts — at #PrincetonU in 2021, Princeton University Library's Anne Jarvis worked with Princeton's Prison Teaching Initiative and Princeton University State Affairs to bring Freedom Reads Freedom Libraries to New Jersey. bit.ly/3YF0CQE
Anne Jarvis, dean of libraries at Princeton University, worked with Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative (PTI) and Office of State Affairs to bring Freedom Libraries to #NewJersey bit.ly/3YF0CQE
"They entered into the experience w/ an open mind & the commitment to the process because it was their integrity at stake." Andrea Smith, MN Dept of Corrections Sr. Librarian, spoke at the #InsideLiteraryPrize award ceremony 📚 sophia stewart Publishers Weekly publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…
“When you meet Dwayne, you cannot but be pulled in by his story and how access to books made such a difference to his life." Dean of Libraries Anne Jarvis worked with Dwayne Betts and his Freedom Reads org to bring the First Freedom Library to NJ: princeton.edu/news/2024/08/1…
"I became a writer as soon as I was in prison. I was sitting in a cell thinking, what am I going to do with these nine years?" Dwayne Betts, lawyer, poet and the founder of Freedom Reads, in a conversation with PJP shares how he became a prison poet. prisonjournalismproject.org/2022/09/14/wri…
"I joined because reading is my life. The library is my happy place." 💬 Chelsea, #InsideLiteraryPrize (ILP) judge at MCF - Shakopee ICYMI: Listen in on an ILP book discussion with the judges at MCF-Shakopee in Center for Justice Innovation's New Thinking podcast 🎧 innovatingjustice.org/publications/i…
Earlier this year, Princeton University State Affairs, the #PrincetonU Prison Teaching Initiative and Princeton University Library collaborated with Freedom Reads to open the first Freedom Libraries in New Jersey at Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in Chesterfield. bit.ly/4dYjSgf
“A library is never just one thing.” Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Dwayne Betts reflected on the impact of books in prison, founding Freedom Reads, and the inaugural #InsideLiteraryPrize in @Service95 ⬇️ service95.com/inside-literar…