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Maximum security inmates are helping South Carolina students.  Tuesday, the Leath Correctional Institution in Greenwood offered a rare look behind bars where it’s happening.




Six inmates, selected for their skills and disciplinary records, are translating Braille for textbooks.  The facility developed a partnership with the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind in Spartanburg, but the books are distributed across the country.  Since March inmates have produced 55,000 pages of much needed text for blind and visually impaired students.


           

Rebecca is serving ten years for felony DUI.  She says, "It's a way for me to try and give back some of what I’ve taking away -not directly who I've hurt- but, back to South Carolina anyway.”




At the start of this school year, 98% percent of the Braille textbooks that were needed by students were ready.  That’s up from just 48% percent in 2001.


 


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