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Friday, January 8th 2021, 11:41 am By: CBS News SALINAS, California - For the past seven years, students from the Palma School in Salinas, California have been part of a book club at an unlikely place—Soledad State Prison. Mia Mirassou and Jim Micheletti founded the book club called "Exercises In Empathy." Micheletti told CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca that students would go into the prison afraid but would leave with a new perspective on the incarcerated men.  "They go in thinking monster … and they come out thinking a man. A human being … they've done bad things, but there ...

CBS News Inmates work together to raise $32,000 for student's tuition For the past seven years, students from the Palma School in Salinas, California have been part of a book club at an unlikely place—Soledad State Prison. Mia Mirassou and Jim Micheletti founded the book club called "Exercises In Empathy." Micheletti told CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca that students would go into the prison afraid but would leave with a new perspective on the incarcerated men.  "They go in thinking monster … and they come out thinking a man. A human being … they've done bad things, but there a...