Reginald Dwayne Betts

Reginald Dwayne Betts is an Associate Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School and the Founder and Director of Freedom Reads, a project designed to build micro-libraries in prisons as a resource and symbol of freedom and possibility. Betts clerked for the Honorable Theodore McKee in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals after representing clients in the New Haven Public Defender’s Office as a Liman Fellow. He is the author of four books and has published numerous articles and essays on topics of mass incarceration and the perils of youth behind bars. 

Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths