The monthly book club met in a cheerful library on a sunny Saturday. Everyone had read the selection, "Gideon's Trumpet," and most had highlighted scores of important passages or marked them with Post-It Notes.
A sign on the wall read, "There is no thief like a bad book."
There was no wine, no finger foods matching the theme of the narrative. The meeting began and ended promptly and everyone was dressed casually, in prison-issue gray T-shirts and shorts, or jeans.
The gathering was held, as always, in the library of the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee, the state prison for women.
"Just because I'm rough 'n' dirty 'n' don't wear underwear, doesn't mean I'm not artistic." - Jesse Hayward, aka Don Knotts, Shakiest Gun in the West.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
'There is no thief like a bad book'
Interesting Minneapolis Star-Tribune story:
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