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Evening. You can see and hear the speakers though they cannot see or hear you. The information is at the bottom and you can see your fellow attendees at the bottom as well. You are welcome to post comments ands thoughts as a way to show your appreciation for the author and fellow attendees. If you have specific questions you would like answered in the q a segment, please pose those in the module and you can find it at the bottom of the screen clicking on the icon. We will be giving questions only from the commander this evening so we ask that you posed them and again other comments are welcome...

/ For people serving time, books have long been a means of education, self-actualization and connection. Advocates are speaking out about a new policy banning family, friends and third parties from sending books to incarcerated Iowans, who must now buy books themselves and only from approved vendors. Locked up in a cell for 23 hours a day at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Anji says one way her brother is coping is by reading a book a day. “He's able to receive one book a day. And he's been trying to power through reading one book a day, basically,” she said. “This is going...