Lighting the Way: Prison reform advocates discuss their efforts to ensure library access for incarcerated people.

CORRECTIONAL institutions -- Law & legislation; LIBRARY public service standards; LITERACY; ART; FRIENDSHIP; PRISON psychology; INDIVIDUAL development; CENSORSHIP; NONPROFIT organizations; PRACTICAL politics; LIBERTY; PRIVATE sector; LIBRARIES; ACCESS to information; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; BOOKS; COMMUNICATION; ENDOWMENTS; WRITTEN communication; LIBRARIANS; READING; GROUP process; GOAL (Psychology)

An interview with poets Reginald Dwayne Betts and Randall Horton about their work, censorship and access to their literature in prisons, and their hopes for American Library Association's (ALA's) revised "Standards for Library Services for the Incarcerated or Detained," coedited by Horton, is presented. They talk about the impact of incarceration on their development as writers, readers, and library users and the kind of access in the experience of incarceration they hope for the standards.