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Reading Club Helps Inmate Dads Read To Kids
By explorebaltimorecounty.com
Published: 09/08/2010

Being in jail doesn't necessarily mean you can't read a book to your child.

A program launched by a group of area residents is allowing those read their rights while being arrested a chance to read to the children they've been disconnected from after being sentenced to prison.

Flo Kennedy-Stack, a private tutor who works for the Baltimore County Public School system, operates the Turning Pages Family Reading Club, which brings books, incarcerated fathers and their children together.

On Sept. 12, club organizers have partnered with Portalli's Restaurant on Main Street in Ellicott City so that 10 percent of each meal's tab will go to the charity and buy books.

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