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Escape route-The surprising potential of a prison library

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Escape route-The surprising potential of a prison library By Avi Steinberg December 26, 2010 The Boston Globe Every day, for the almost two years I worked as a staff librarian at the Suffolk County House of Correction at South Bay, the pattern was the same: Seconds after they were released from their units, inmates would not walk, they would run ? as though catapulted ? towards the prison?s library. Many inmates, especially those in a hurry, arrived with some specific order of business. They would grab a book of case law, or they?d check out a newspaper or magazine and take a seat at the library?s long table. They might disappear into the labyrinth of bookshelves. Many would line up to speak with me. They?d pose legal questions, talk about their families and health concerns, describe their spiritual and educational quests...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 02, 2011 (boomark / email).