Reginald Dwayne Betts
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 44 |
| Date of birth | November 5,1980 |
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
| Born | Maryland |
| United States | |
| Job | Teacher |
| Poet | |
| Memoirist | |
| Education | Yale Law School |
| University of Maryland | |
| Warren Wilson College | |
| Books | Felon: Poems |
| Circling Disaster: Youth, Race, and the Failures of the American Justice System | |
| Bastards of the Reagan Era | |
| The Circumference of a Prison: Youth, Race, and the Failures of the American Justice System | |
| Shahid Reads His Own Palm | |
| A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison | |
| Awards | NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | |
| Nominations | NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry |
| Children | 2 |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 449501 |
Reginald Dwayne Betts Life story
Reginald Dwayne Betts is an American poet, legal scholar, educator and prison reform advocate. At age 16 he committed an armed carjacking, was prosecuted as an adult, and sentenced to nine years in prison. He started reading and writing poetry during his incarceration.
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