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  2. The Giver of Stars - Wikipedia

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    The women deliver library books to people in the mountains of Kentucky during the Great Depression, a real-life program launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. [1] Universal Pictures has acquired the movie rights to The Giver of Stars, and the feature film is in the early stages of production. [2]

  3. Kentucky State Reformatory - Wikipedia

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    Kentucky State Reformatory La Grange, Ky. Postcard view, c. 1940. Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR) is a medium-security prison for adult males. The prison is located in unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, [1] near La Grange, [2] and about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville. [3]

  4. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Wikipedia

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    In 1936 eastern Kentucky, 19-year-old Cussy Mary Carter works for the New Deal–funded Pack Horse Library Project, delivering reading material to the remote hill people of the Appalachian Mountains. Cussy Mary, sometimes known as Bluet, lives with her coal-miner and labor-organizing father, and feels her work as a librarian honors her long ...

  5. Prison library - Wikipedia

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    Library books, Guantanamo prison, 2011. America has had prison libraries since 1790. [19] The first state prison library was established in 1802. [19] At the beginning of the 19th century prisons were usually operated by the clergy. [1] The purpose of the library was to increase religious devotion and modify behaviour.

  6. Federal government gives green light to build new prison in ...

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    KY Congressman Hal Rogers said he was “thrilled” about approved plans to build the new federal facility in Roxana, roughly 10 miles west of Whitesburg. Federal government gives green light to ...

  7. Books to Prisoners - Wikipedia

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    These included Seattle's Books to Prisoners, Boston's Prison Book Program, and the Prison Library Project which was founded in Durham, North Carolina but relocated to Claremont, California in 1986. Since then, dozens of prison book programs have been established, although many have had short life-spans.

  8. 6 former Kentucky State Corrections Officers sentenced to ...

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    Randall Dennis, 28, James Benish, 37, and Jeffery Havens, 28, were sentenced to 60, 27 and 15 months in prison, respectively, plus two years of supervised release for their involvement in the ...

  9. Kentucky prison must offer inmates access to medications for ...

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