A friend of mine got 63 years when no parole for am attempted capital murder. The gun never went off, right? He tried to take the gun from the police, and he says he tried to shoot himself. And this was around a superpredit errar, but it was nobody clamoring to say that this shouldn't be going on. A lot of it is grasping for is like articulatinghis question.
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.