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Books behind bars: A personal mission for change
EVERETT — On a sunny Saturday morning, Bryson Fico brought 379 books through the Marysville jail doors, offering what he calls “small escapes” for people with nowhere to go.
The officer helping him unload the donation called it the biggest the jail had ever received.
It’s the latest milestone in Fico’s self-run initiative, Pages of Redemption, a nonprofit effort he launched in September 2023 to bring books into Washington’s jails. What began as a side project during his time studying law and justice at Central Washington University has since grown into a one-man operation that has donated more than 1,200 books across the state.
Fico grew up surrounded by books.
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/books-behind-bars-a-personal-mission-for-change/