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By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Northwest Arkansas Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Reading matter for state prisons gets careful look BY JON GAMBRELL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 PINE BLUFF ? As in any library, the bookshelves overseen by Dennice Alexander draw visitors with diverse literary tastes. Requests for everything from philosophy books to The Art of Sculling reach Alexander?s desk, which is filled with lists and yellow cards cataloguing the tomes held at her branch locations. Not that it?s likely Alexander?s readers will take to a boat anytime soon. Alexander is the first fulltime administrator who oversees the libraries within Arkansas? state prison system, which holds more than 14, 000 inmates spread among 20 locations. For the longest time, advisory boards held sway over what books made it inside the double razor-wired fences...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 18, 2008 (boomark / email).