(23 Apr 2024)
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Chicago – 22 April 2024
1. Various of Cook County Jail
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nana Ampofo, Students Against Incarceration president:
"I always knew I wanted to take care of people. I just didn't know who. And I feel like I found the people I want to take care of."
3. Cook County Jail inmates meeting for book club
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nana Ampofo, Students Against Incarceration president:
"So I heard about the inside-out program, and I decided it would be like a good, class to take so I can get more experience, hands on experience with working with people who are incarcerated.
5. Nana Ampofo during book club
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nana Ampofo, Students Against Incarceration president:
"But this is like no credit class. There's no professor involved. The curriculum is built entirely by me."
7. Various of Cook County Jail inmates meeting for book club
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nana Ampofo, Students Against Incarceration president:
"I'll do the research, I'll bring it in and be like, okay, guys, this is what each book is about. Here's a photo to cover. Here's some fun facts about it. And then we start voting on which book we want to do next."
9. Cook County Jail inmates meeting for book club
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jarvis Wright, incarcerated at Cook County Jail:
"Yeah, that's my first time doing the book club. And it's actually my first time doing the inside out program as well. All right. There's Haley. She's like our program director over on the back. So she came out and we'll be interested, and I'm like, yeah, that'll be done. I'm like, yeah, I like to read anyway. So I'm like, yeah, that's cool. So, I signed up for it."
11. Cook County Jail inmates meeting for book club
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jarvis Wright, incarcerated at Cook County Jail:
"Reading definitely helps you escape because this sometimes this place can be chaotic and you'll just get caught up in a lot of stuff that's going on around there. Reading is just like that place to just bring you back down, mellow you, you know, so that you can relax, you know, it calms you, it soothes you."
13. Various of Jarvis Wright during book club
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jarvis Wright incarcerated at Cook County Jail:
"Even though we sitting in here incarcerated, we doing time, awaiting trial for our cases like this gives us something positive to look forward to. To show our family and our children that we're not in here just wasting time or just goofing off, we actually doing something that can help us. You know, we're trying to change ourselves for the better."
14. Cook County Jail inmates meeting for book club
15. Nana Ampofo talking to students during book club
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Nana Ampofo, Students Against Incarceration president:
"I think education is a dying universal like human right. And I think it's important that we give education to anyone."
17. Cook County Jail inmates meeting for book club
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Nana Ampofo, Students Against Incarceration president:
"I feel like it's important that Americans
19. Various of Cook County Jail inmates meeting for book club
STORYLINE:
A unique book club at one of the nation's largest jails brings together college students and inmates.

The student-led volunteer effort started years ago as an offshoot of a DePaul program offering college credit classes at the jail for students and detainees.

For college senior Nana Ampofo, an unconventional book club inside one of the nation’s largest jails has transformed her career ambitions.







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