What's a pathway to freedom? Reading.

How has literature changed your life? For poet and lawyer, Reginald Dwaye Betts , books meant freedom. After getting sentenced to 9 years in adult prison at 16, Dwayne felt a sense of hope and possibility whenever he was reading. Upon his release he founded Freedom Reads , an organization that builds libraries within prisons across the country to provide a physical space where those incarcerated…