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  How to have Book Talk Prison Reading Groups (PRG) support informal book groups and reading for pleasure. Before lockdown we supported over 45 groups in more than 40 prisons nationwide. Groups themselves choose the book they read and discuss, and members get a new copy to keep. Covid put a temporary stop to face to face meetings, but quite a few of our groups are still going strong with brilliant help from library and prison staff. The chosen book is delivered in-cell and readers provide written comments which are summarised in a newsletter so people can find out what others thought. To hel...

So that's when i immediately left. >> what about little jonathan who was in his classroom standing next to nolan and jonathan is the one who didn't survive. do you know jonathan? do you know if they were friends? >> yes. as a matter of fact, every thursday i would go into the classroom and i would help miss smith out with reading with the kids or math or whatever she would ask me to do. so we would sit in our reading groups and jonathan would be in that group and he would read and we would say good job and give each other a high-five. i'm just going to miss that. >> i heard he was a very frien...

>> everyone in this room has been hurt more than they've been helped. >> obamacare changed my life and saved it, senator. >> nobody here has not been affected by obamacare. >> yes, because it saved my life, senator. >> you hear that women say that obamacare saved my life, but there is a lot of skepticism among the president's supporters about whether or not these stories are true, whether people are reading groups at these town hall. look at this video of some of the recent protests around trump tower and elsewhere around the country, the president's supporters say look at the scripts being di...

In there and dig deeper. not take a break because you're traumatized. >> by doing all of this, by setting the reading groups to formulate a response to the implications, they're saying we didn't like the decisions and columbia university should not put that out there in their classrooms. that's not for them to decide and not to dictate policy on. we have to go but some people are saying bah hum bug to a dazzling display of good lights in one neighborhood. ♪

Reoffer several hundred of these reading groups on every subject under the sun. and the whole idea that students can decide to take it or not to take it. it's a voluntary course. >> if they take it, what are they going to get out of it? >> i think they are going to get a sense about how race, how religion, and how politics have influenced our country over the last three or four centuries. >> with the nexus being around president obama. is he going to be -- >> -- it's even earlier than that three or four sun centuries. katy stanton and susan b. anthony when they were debating whether the consti...