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The NYC Public Defender Who Sends Books to Prisoners
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And frontier justice in Charles Portis’s ‘True Grit’

In this episode, Shilo Brooks sits down with New York City public defender Ben Schatz to discuss the novel True Grit—and the nature of justice in America.

Ben founded the nonprofit Books Beyond Bars, which sends requested books (not just random donations) to individuals locked in New York jails and prisons, giving them dignity, mental escape, and intelle…

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