Inmates repair their lives by repairing books

Thursday, November 15, 2012

By Michael S. Rosenwald

Now here’s a good idea: Inmates fixing library books.

Below, watch a Capital News Service report about a unique new partnership between Montgomery County’s jails and the library system.

“It makes me feel real good considering the background where I come from and the children didn’t have books or whatnot,” one inmate says.

See Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EKxI_tjDWak


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