Jean Mills is an ardent defender of the written word. The former chair of the English department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Mills lives in nearby Accord. She opened Blue Heron Books at ...

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Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...