Books Behind Bars: Literacy and Incarceration in Massachusetts
By Talia Whyte
Literacy advocates gathered at the Nonprofit Center in Chinatown Nov. 6 to collect donated books, which will be redistributed to prisons around the country. The issue of literacy is a concern to communities of color because the vast majority of U.S. prisoners are black or Latino, and most statistics show that 40 percent of prisoners are functionally illiterate.
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