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A Poet Gives a 360 Degree View of the Criminal Justice System

March 21, 2019

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Reginald Dwayne Betts is a published poet, memoirist, and legal scholar who’s currently pursuing a Ph.D. in law at Yale. His legal work, like his poetry, is informed by the years he spent in prison as a teen. This week he sits down with At Liberty to discuss his journey to the legal profession, his perspective of the criminal justice system, and his art.

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