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How books — and bookshelves — are helping incarcerated people in Connecticut

NPR

By Kevin Chang Barnum

Published October 12, 2025 at 7:11 AM CDT

In Connecticut, formerly incarcerated people are building bookshelves and filling them with books for donation to prisons. They say reading helped them get through their own sentences.

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