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High schoolers donate their used books to prisons across the United States.

Watch presentations from Ruchi Mangtani and Niklas Klemmer (JusticeBound Founder and Director of Outreach), Leonard Edwards (Santa Clara County Juvenile Court Judge), and Reshma Persaud and Annette Bhatia (Columbia University).

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High schoolers and teachers sorted the donated books to send to prisons. 

Eighth graders discussed their personal experiences surrounding the prison system and learned about the racial disparities in the system, the issue of bail keeping people in county jails despite being innocent, and recidivism. They additionally read various excerpts of books written by incarcerated people while in prison. 

FAMM's Debi Campbell described her experiences in prison and answered questions from students about how to support incarcerated people and work towards prison reform. 

We hosted this event at Menlo School. We filtered the books donated by the students for the ones that are allowed in prisons. Camy from Wisconsin Books to Prisoners and Patricia from Inside Books Project additionally spoke about their efforts to support incarcerated people.