(23 Apr 2024)
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Chicago – 22 April 2024
1. Various of Cook County Jail
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nana Ampofo, DePaul University Student:
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"I always knew I wanted to take care of people. I just didn't know who. And I feel like I found the people I want to take care of."
3. Cook County Jail inmates meeting for book club
4.Nana Ampofo during book club
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nana Ampofo, Students Against Incarceration president:
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"So I heard about the insideout program, and I decided it would be like a good, class to take so I can get hands on experience with working with people who are incarcerated. But this is like no credit class. There's no professor involved. The curriculum is built entirely by me."
6. Various of Cook County Jail inmates meeting for book club
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nana Ampofo, DePaul University Student:
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"I'll do the research, I'll bring it in and be like, okay, guys, this is what each book is about. And then we start voting on which book we want to do next."
8. Author Sister Helen Prejean talking to Cook County Jail inmates during book club meeting
UPSOUND (English) Sister Helen Prejean, author:
"And you get 2 and a half cents an hour when you start and you work in the fields, you still see people going into fields with these hos over their shoulder and a guard on horseback with a gun on the front and the back."
9. Cook County Jail inmates meeting for book club
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jarvis Wright, incarcerated at Cook County Jail:
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"Yeah, that's my first time doing the book club. And it's actually my first time doing the inside out program as well. I like to read anyway. So I'm like, yeah, that's cool. So, I signed up for it."
11. Various of Jarvis Wright during book club
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jarvis Wright, incarcerated at Cook County Jail:
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"Reading definitely helps you escape because this sometimes this place can be chaotic and you'll just get caught up in a lot of stuff that's going on around there. Reading is just like that place to just bring you back down, mellow you, you know, so that you can relax, you know, it calms you, it soothes you."
13. Cook County Jail inmates meeting for book club
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jarvis Wright, incarcerated at Cook County Jail:
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"Even though we sitting in here incarcerated, we doing time, awaiting trial for our cases like this gives us something positive to look forward to. To show our family and our children that we're not in here just wasting time or just goofing off, we actually doing something that can help us. You know, we're trying to change ourselves for the better."
15. Author Sister Helen Prejean talking to Cook County Jail inmates during book club meeting
UPSOUND (English) Sister Helen Prejean, author:
"I just believe in the beauty of human beings and the power to change, so I'm just going to keep doing it til god takes me."
16. Nana Ampofo talking to students during book club
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Nana Ampofo, Students Against Incarceration president:
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18. Various of Cook County Jail inmates meeting for book club
STORYLINE:
A unique book club at one of the nation's largest jails brings together college students and inmates.

The studentled volunteer effort started years ago as an offshoot of a DePaul program offering college credit classes at the jail for students and detainees.







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