"I thought it was, it's like a religious experience. And so i would never open this all te way ecause it's just a spine." "If you don't touch somebody without consent and their permission, that you are affordin him a measure of dignity and respect," he says. The brothers camasaoy say they wish they had some kind of blue print before going to prison.
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.