Southin: Your book inevitably deals with racial issues. You're one of numerous black young men in that book who are incarcerated together. And i'm curious if your thoughts have changed since you wrote that book, about how the system works. It makes southin like it's one the social challenges of growing up black in america; and how that might get better. I love your project, because it is a it's going to try to make a difference one book at a time, one reader at a time.
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.