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

By Kevin Chang Barnum

Published October 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM EDT

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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