Inside The World Of A Prison Chess Player

Robert Booker, a Detroit native currently serving a 30-year sentence for distributing crack cocaine, has been down for almost two decades. In that time, he’s played thousands of games of chess. I saw it firsthand when I was on the yard with Booker at FCI Gilmer, a medium-security prison in Virginia. The incarcerated population in the US numbers more than 2 million and since that population is largely barred from access to higher education...
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