One of These Days We Might Find Us Some Free: Reginald Dwayne Betts
New Thinking, from the Center for Justice Innovation
English - July 20, 2021 15:47 - 42 minutes - 59.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsNon-Profit Business Government Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In 1996, 16-year-old Reginald Dwayne Betts was sentenced to nine years in prison for a carjacking. He spent much of that time reading, and eventually writing. After prison, he went to Yale Law School and published a memoir and three books of poems. But he’s still wrestling with what “after prison” means. This is a conversation about incarceration, Blackness, and the weight of history, both political and personal. Betts's most recent collection of poems is Felon.
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This episode was originally released in January 2020.
In 1996, 16-year-old Reginald Dwayne Betts was sentenced to nine years in prison for a carjacking. He spent much of that time reading, and eventually writing. After prison, he went to Yale Law School and published a memoir and three books of poems. But he’s still wrestling with what “after prison” means. This is a conversation about incarceration, Blackness, and the weight of history, both political and personal. Betts’s most recent collection of poems is Felon.
This episode was originally released in January 2020.