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Man looks out from a jail cell

How a book club is helping to keep ex-offenders from going back to jail

Source: The Washington Post

Reading books and writing poetry while in prison helped save Jimmy Santiago Baca from returning to a life of crime. A program in Washington, D.C., strives to make the same difference in the lives of prisoners.

This entry was posted in Hard-Won Liberty and tagged Culture & Society, People on July 1, 2020 by Mikki Gibson.

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