Youth offenders get a boost from reading `Redwall' books.
Publication: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
Publication Date: 28-MAR-01
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When John Richter read his first Redwall adventure, he was hooked immediately. And when the program coordinator for youthful offenders at the Orange County (Fla.) Jail heard that author Brian Jacques had accepted an invitation to visit, he was thrilled.
"It's like having Michael Jordan," Richter says.
Richter works with teens who have been incarcerated in the adult jail...
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