I've covered L.A. County jails for over a year now. Amidst all the misery of incarceration, this is one fact that stands out to me: 📚The nation's largest jail has no official library system. Why? ⤵️⤵️⤵️ laist.com/news/criminal-…
.@ahmanise worked in the jails for over a decade. She started bringing in books on her own. Novels. Books in Spanish. Incarcerated people devoured them. So she started book drives, and eventually, a partnership with @skylightbooks that raised over $11,000 for jail books
Ahmanise Sanati realized this was big. “I don’t believe this should be a charity project solely dependent on one individual," the mental health clinical supervisor wrote to her bosses at the Department of Health Services. DHS said, not our thing. laist.com/news/criminal-…