Utah prison inmates become eyes for the blind through reading program

Shanti Lerner joins FOX 13 News as a multimedia journalist focusing on digital content for the station.

SALT LAKE CITY — As someone who is visually impaired, recordings of local books and magazines open up Sandy England’s world in ways that for her that aren't physically possible.

Roger is the lead reader for the Reading for the Blind Program: a joint initiative of the Utah Department of Corrections and Utah State Library for the Blind and Disabled. The audience is more than 9,000 visually impaired, blind and disabled Utahns, with several thousand more in surrounding states. When the prison moved from Draper to the Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City, the program came with it.

“I started as an editor, and after a little while of editing, then I moved into a narrator's booth,” said Tyler, an inmate who has been incarcerated since 2021."I love it. It's a phenomenal job. “Most of prison is up 20 years behind,” said Roger. “But here to do things that they're doing out in the real world. So when we leave, we actually leave with a skill." According to Fischer, many of the patrons are aware that inmates are voicing the materials, and for many like England, it's not a bother.

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