The chapter delves into personal reflections on regrets, growth, and justice while exploring the impact of studying Rawls in prison. It discusses the experiences of incarceration, the struggle with identity, and the shared experiences of men behind bars, highlighting the complexity of accountability and the impact of actions on others.
When poet, lawyer, and MacArthur Fellow Dwayne Betts was imprisoned for nine years at the age of 16 for carjacking, he only wept twice. One of those times was when he read Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." In this powerful conversation with EconTalk's Russ Roberts, Betts explains why he cried, what he learned from King, King's urgency in the face of injustice, and Betts's thoughts on writing the introduction to a new volume of King's letter.