Freedom Reads
Freedom Reads
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About this organization
Mission
Freedom Reads is a first-of-its-kind organization that empowers people through literature to confront what prison does to the spirit. With the Freedom Library and with our literary programs, Freedom Reads supports the efforts of people in prison to imagine new possibilities for their lives. Freedom begins with a book.
About
Alone in solitary confinement, a teenager called out to the men in the hole with him: “Somebody, send me a book!” Moments later, Dudley Randall’s The Black Poets was slid under his cell door. Those pages, in that funky and desperate place, were the start of his own transformation to poet and lawyer and promoter of the rights of people still inside. Now, 23 years after his release from prison, Reginald Dwayne Betts and his team have built Freedom Reads, a way to slide books like that one — books that open worlds and change lives — to readers in prison across the country. The centerpiece of Freedom Reads is the Freedom Library: the opening of dignifying library spaces in prison housing units across the country, granting daily access to 500 carefully chosen works of literature – to transport readers to a world of ideas and possibility.