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title: Book Club Opens New Worlds for Incarcerated Women
date: 2025-11-11T00:00:00-05:00
author: Ella LaGrange
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# Book Club Opens New Worlds for Incarcerated Women

*November 11, 2025* — by Ella LaGrange
> UMD English Professor Co-leads Volunteer Program Set to Add Graduate Students Following Bequest

A recent bequest from an anonymous donor will help ensure the future of a book club that introduces those incarcerated at the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women to both classic and recent works of fiction.

- [Learn More About Professor Rudy's Book Club](https://today.umd.edu/book-club-opens-new-worlds-for-incarcerated-women)