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| Helping to put books in the hands of inmates |
| By centraljersey.com - Jennifer Kohlhepp |
| Published: 01/08/2014 |
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Some students do not have the basic resources many others take for granted. Inside New Jersey state prisons, incarcerated young adults are taking college courses without access to academic libraries, the Internet, or common reference materials. Labyrinth Books and Princeton University’s Prison Teaching Initiative, backed by the Pace Center for Civic Engagement, are collaborating on a book drive to provide inmate college students with some of the materials every student should have. ”This is a new experiment in one sense and not in another,” Dorothea von Moltke, co-owner of Labyrinth with her husband and brother-in-law, Cliff and Peter Simms, said. “For several years now, we have been conducting a book drive for the Princeton Young Achievers during the holiday season. This is an after-school educational program for underserved students from kindergarten through fifth grade housed at the YMCA. Each year, we are amazed at how eager the Princeton community is to help put books in the hands of kids for whom this is a rare gift. Read More. |
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