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Book Review: The Maximum Security Book Club - Reading Literature in a Men’s Prison
Mikita Brottman, a professor of humanities in Baltimore, conducts a weekly reading group at the Jessup Correctional Institution in Maryland. Most of the participants are serving long sentences for violent crimes. In The Maximum Security Book Club, she describes the group’s discussions and reactions as they study 10 of the books she has chosen for reading.