NEW ORLEANS — A local actor who turned his life around after going to prison, says “There can not be prison reform without education reform.” Ameer Baraka says half of the inmates in one Louisiana state prison are dyslexic and can’t read. That’s what happened to him when he was young. Now he’s part of […]

As a young boy, I wasn’t a bad person. I feared going into the classroom because I couldn’t read. Had someone intervened in third or fourth grade, I would never have gone to prison. Today, by the grace of God, I’m proud to be an Emmy-nominated actor and outspoken advocate for dyslexics like me. But as a […]

A study found that 80 percent of inmates in the Huntsville, Texas, state prison were functionally illiterate, and 48 percent of those were dyslexic. READ MORE HERE