• UK ban on sending books to prisoners ruled unlawful by High Court
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30344867[/url] [quote]The government's ban on sending books to prisoners in England and Wales is unlawful, the High Court has declared. Under the current rules prisoners are prevented from receiving parcels unless they have "exceptional circumstances", such as a medical condition. Mr Justice Collins said he could see "no good reason" to restrict access to books for prisoners. ... The book ban was introduced in November last year in England and Wales, as part of a scheme which limits what prisoners can receive in parcels. The Incentives and Earned Privileges scheme was brought in partly as an attempt to crack down on drugs getting into prisons. Prisoners had argued that books sent to them in parcels can be key to their rehabilitation. Prisoners are still able to read books borrowed from a prison library - and last month the Ministry of Justice relaxed restrictions on the number of books they could keep in their cells. But it has been claimed that prison libraries are often inadequately stocked, and can be hard to access because there is not always staff available to take prisoners to them.[/quote]
That's completely fucked, I didn't even know that rule had been brought in
Just flip through the pages and have a dog sniff the book before giving it to the inmates.
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