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“Everything you need to know about business or politics can be learned from Godfather I and Godfather II,” inmate 05635-509 told the assembled group of prisoners in Danbury Federal Correctional Institution. The inmate in a khaki prison-issued shirt and pants with an elastic waist to accommodate his girth — Steve …

When Holly Weaver began teaching in 2014, she started because she loved literature,and wanted to share that with students. But she quickly realized that her class, filled with kids from diverse communities and socioeconomic backgrounds, needed something completely different. “I saw very quickly some inequities within school systems,” Weaver says. …