Collecting the World in
Words for Prisoners
Burlington Hawkeye By KILEY MILLER Oct. 21, 2007
Steve Neff is an unlikely librarian.
Then again, inmates make unusual bookworms.
Once upon a time, Neff spent a year at the Jefferson County Correctional Facility. That's where this story begins.
The big fellow from Burlington had been booked without books, so to speak. He had way too much time to kill and way too little to do.
Never much of a reader before, Neff made it through the Bible that year -- twice -- and polished off a deep stack of Louis L'Amour novels.
"He's a good writer," he says, "but there are only so many stampedes and shoot outs in the canyon you can feign interest in."
Even when that dark chapter of his life was over, memories of the tedium endured. Neff returned to the jail soon after his release with a box of books in his arms.
But he still hadn't written a conclusion. There were more jails in Iowa, after all. More bored inmates.
So began Books for Crooks
[full article coming soon]
Words for Prisoners
Burlington Hawkeye By KILEY MILLER Oct. 21, 2007
Steve Neff is an unlikely librarian.
Then again, inmates make unusual bookworms.
Once upon a time, Neff spent a year at the Jefferson County Correctional Facility. That's where this story begins.
The big fellow from Burlington had been booked without books, so to speak. He had way too much time to kill and way too little to do.
Never much of a reader before, Neff made it through the Bible that year -- twice -- and polished off a deep stack of Louis L'Amour novels.
"He's a good writer," he says, "but there are only so many stampedes and shoot outs in the canyon you can feign interest in."
Even when that dark chapter of his life was over, memories of the tedium endured. Neff returned to the jail soon after his release with a box of books in his arms.
But he still hadn't written a conclusion. There were more jails in Iowa, after all. More bored inmates.
So began Books for Crooks
[full article coming soon]
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