"I felt like i was on the bottom, so i didn't care how it was received," he says. "Some folks anto actwit like dogs... And some people just live to look at the dog on the street." The book is published by Simon & Schuster and available in hardback for $16.99.
Author, lawyer, and poet Dwayne Betts talks about his time in prison and the power of reading with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Betts is the founder of the Million Book Project, which aims to put a small library of great books in 1,000 U.S. prisons. Betts discusses his plans for the project and how reading helped him transform himself.