Reginald Dwayne Betts

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250 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 7 Aug

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It's Been a Minute · What's a pathway to freedom? Reading. · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

And then she smiled and I smiled and the tension disappeared.

I mean like like the number of letters that we've got.

We got letters from people's mothers talking about they hadn't heard that much light in their kids' voice since they had been locked up.

And and I and I think about my own kids and I recognize that one of the things that they have and they've always had is access to literature and access to stories.

And and and maybe a baseline what the Freedom Library has taught me is that we bring it back into the prisons.

And and none of us want to be in prison.

But you know

We go in and argue that we deserve to live in a world where people would do the things that we do for us.

And we recognize all of the times where we weren't there incapable and and didn't have people showing up and doing this for us.

You know, my guy talked about reading heavy and getting to the last page and it was gone.

He was devastated because he couldn't find out how the book ended.

And I said, listen, man, me and you should get DAC Le Mons.

To you and him to have a conversation about what it means to pick up his book and not be able to read the last page.

Cause see, I thought his book mattered.

So Freedom Reed's got a thousand copies of his book and put it in prisons all across the country.

I used to think I would die at fifty.

A friend told me that uh her her husband had turned seventy five over the weekend.

I thought man I can't wait.

Stick around.

So it was um France has a book prize that's judged by people in prison.

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