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When regrets become wings | Reginald Dwayne Betts | TEDxGreenRockCorrectionalCenter 2024

Nearly three decades ago, a fellow incarcerated person slipped “The Black Poets” by Dudley Randall under Reginald Dwayne Betts’ cell door, sparking a transformation in solitary confinement. Now, as the founder and CEO of Freedom Reads, Betts leads a team — many formerly incarcerated — building and opening Freedom Libraries in prison cellblocks across the country.

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Forgiveness, a path to redemption | Yusef Salaam | TEDxSingSing 2014

This talk focuses on using forgiveness as a path to redemption, rebuilding relationships and community. The fifth suspect in the Central Park Jogger case, at 15 years old Yusef Salaam was wrongly accused and convicted of assaulting a female jogger in Central Park. He spent 7 years of a 10-year sentence incarcerated for a crime he did not commit. In 2002, based on a confession and DNA evidence, the Central Park Five convictions were vacated. Today, he is committed to advocating and educating people on the issues of false confessions, human rights violations and criminal justice.

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