The libraries are meant to provide beauty, access to literature and cultivate a community space in prisons nationwide.
Stopping at one with a white cover — “Shibumi” by Trevanian — he remembered when the spy novel rolled by him on a jailhouse book cart decades ago. Recalling that he didn’t have glasses at the time, he took off the brown and black frames that now sit on his face and got up close to the pages, mimicking what it took for him to the read the book without them.said. “And some of it is just the personal history that they carry for me.
The space is on display until September in the “Justice is Beauty” exhibit and was created in partnership with Model of Architecture Serving Society Design Group, an architecture organization focused on social justice. One of the Karibu owners was so impressed by Betts’s knowledge of books that he asked him where he graduated from college. But Betts said he hadn’t graduated.“Man, I just got out of prison,” Betts recalled responding.To this, Betts said yes. He began writing poetry while in prison and shared some of his poems with the bookstore owner.
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