Freedom Reads

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Countering with literature what prison does to the spirit. Freedom begins with a book. ➡️ freedomreads.org

Screenshot of a press release titled "Freedom Reads Brings Inside Literary Prize to Puerto Rican Prisons." It announces that the national non-profit Freedom Reads facilitated book discussions, voting, and author events for the Inside Literary Prize at three prisons in Puerto Rico: Instituto de Bellas Artes, Instituto 501, and Complejo de Rehabilitación para las Mujeres. The release is dated June 5, 2025, from Hamden, Connecticut.
Bookstore counter surrounded by bookshelves with a poster about Freedom Reads in the middle of the image
Group photo with almost twenty men wearing khaki prison uniforms and the freedom reads team in black and gray t-shirts.
Three women look at the Freedom Library.
Freedom Reads library coordinator david puts freedom reads brochures into books.
A man wearing a khaki prison uniform sits and listens attentively to a poetry reading.
a bookstore counter filled with posters and magnets. a poster about freedom reads sits on the counter next to the computer and payment system.
Inside Literary Prize judges wearing blue prison uniforms sit in a circle of school desks discussing books.
The Freedom Reads team, Inside Literary Prize judges, and employees of the Illinois Department of Corrections smile, posing for a photo holding up books.
8 women wearing white prison uniforms gather around the Freedom Library, looking through the new books.
Three men wearing blue prison uniforms look at books in the wooden Freedom Library bookcase
A young man wearing a blue prison uniform looks at books on the wooden Freedom Library bookcase.
Bookstore counter filled with posters, including a Readers for Freedom Reads poster.
Freedom Library Patrons in California look at books from the Freedom Library.
Freedom Library Patron Hector (left) stands behind the Freedom Library with Freedom Reads Library Coordinator David Perez DeHoyos at MCI-Norfolk. They are holding up a book about Malcolm X.
Audre Lorde's poem "A Litany for Survival" typed on a blue background.
Allie and LeRoy from the Freedom Reads team smile for a photo in front of the Freedom Reads table and banners at the Barclays Center.
Dwayne and Lori from the Freedom Reads team wave to the stadium at the Barclays Center in a video on the jumbotron.
Graphic with list of book tour events for Doggerel.
Doggerel book cover on an orange background.
Black and white image of Dwayne preparing for a solo show in a Virginia prison.
Dwayne stands, performing his solo show in a Virginia prison. He is surrounded by a paper art installation.
Dwayne stands, leaning over a folding table during his performance of his solo show inside a Virginia prison last year.
Doggerel book cover on a purple background with the WW Norton logo in the bottom right corner.
Man looks at the Freedom Library bookcases inside a prison.