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Freedom Reads' Monthly Newsletter

Freedom Reads Communications Manager Steven Parkhurst (left), Freedom Reads Library Coordinator David Perez Jr (center), and Freedom Reads Library Production Assistant Michael Byrd (right) sit outside of Cybulski Community Reintegration Center sign.
September 2024 Newsletter
Freedom Reads: Rewriting Our Futures
August 2024 Newsletter
Staking My Life on Books
Kevin, second from right, explains how to build a Freedom Library to Freedom Reads team members.
July 2024 Newsletter
Freedom Reads: Our Calling
6 members of the Freedom Reads team pose for a photo around Freedom Libraries in a loading dock at Garden State Correctional Facility
June 2024 Newsletter
Freedom Reads: What Started as a Dream
6 men wearing prison uniforms stand in line at Garden State Correctional Facility for Dwayne to sign their copies of FELON.
May 2024 Newsletter
A Public Library Like No Other
CHEFA and Freedom Reads hosted an official partnership launch event at Freedom Reads headquarters in Hamden, CT. From left to right: CHEFA Grant Committee Chair Lawrence Davis, CHEFA Executive Director Jeanette W. Weldon, Connecticut Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz, Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the Connecticut Office of Workforce Strategy Anthony Barrett, and CHEFA Manager of Grant Programs and Philanthropic Outreach Betty Sugerman Weintraub.
April 2024 Newsletter
300 Freedom Libraries and Counting
March 2024 Newsletter
March Forth with Freedom Reads
February 2024 Newsletter
Showing Up: Why Freedom Reads’ Work Matters
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts looks at book in Freedom Library
January 2024 Newsletter
Every Freedom Library is a Promise.
Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts and University of New Haven Professor Randall Horton – both highly-regarded, award-winning poets – conduct a poetry reading in November 2023 at Carl Robinson Correctional Institution in Enfield, Connecticut.
December 2023 Newsletter
Freedom Reads News to Celebrate!
On October 26, 2023, at Otisville Correctional Facility in New York, Freedom Reads opened its 200th Freedom Library.
November 2023 Newsletter
200 Freedom Libraries and Counting
Men at the Dorsey Run Correctional Facility in Jessup, Maryland, with Freedom Reads Founder & CEO Reginald Dwayne Betts, after helping Freedom Reads’ team members open Freedom Libraries there in June 2023.
October 2023 Newsletter
Catching Up with Freedom Reads