Bookish Diversions: Reading in Jail
Books Behind Bars, Blackout Poetry, Smuggling Books, Seditious Chinese Children’s Books, Gutenberg Updated, More
¶ Books behind bars. As a teenager Reginald Dwayne Betts carjacked someone, got arrested, confessed, and was sentenced to prison. “The first morning I woke up in a cell,” he remembered in a piece for the New York Times, “I was 16 years old and had braces and colorful bands covering my teeth. My voice cracked whe…
