There has been much said about prison literature over the years. There are also many people who are both proponents and opponents to it. It can sometimes be surprising to others that no matter what a person has done or who they are that another person would be objected to them reading or trying to better themselves.
People who commit crimes deserve to be punished. People who commit truly vicious crimes deserve to be put in jail and kept away from the rest of society, sure. The problem is that sadly our justice system is not the most perfect system in the world and occasionally people who do not deserve it get sent to prison. When this happens it can sometimes take an army to get them released.
There are stories of past inmates who spent multiple years locked up and when they were released ended up having a decent life. So as a way to give back they donated money or supplies to help the place get books or build a library. When this happens it is a great thing, sadly it does not happen everywhere. Magazines are one thing they do have but once they are used up they become old news.
While it is usually extremely unlikely, there is concern that some of the more intelligent inmates might use these law books to gin the upper hand on the legal system and try to find a loop hole of sorts to get themselves a shorter term. Or worse yet, get themselves out of jail entirely. This being the case some people are against them reading such books.
There are a lot of people who have very strong feelings about the prison system and do not want to help anybody who is there learn to do anything. They figure that if they did not take advantage of the schooling they were given on the outside why should we pity them now and teach them to read. A lot of people agree with that statement.
Books for jails are not always that easy to come by. Because it is a prison there are rarely ever funds for anyone to just go out and purchase books to supply the library with what they might need. Since this is the case they usually rely on donations from various parties to supply the books they require and most times those do not happen enough.
There are cases of big donations taking place every now and again but those are too few and far between to be of any help to enough of the prisons to make a difference. This being said, when it does happen there are cases of the books being either too far gone, damaged, or of the wrong types of materials.
Aside from just giving the prisoners something to do the libraries on the grounds of a prison are harmless. Or so many people think. There are cases of prisoners using the information within those books to mount their own defense and an appeal to their original sentencing. Why some people think this is wrong I am not sure. There are also people who are jailed but are innocent, so prison literature might serve a purpose.
People who commit crimes deserve to be punished. People who commit truly vicious crimes deserve to be put in jail and kept away from the rest of society, sure. The problem is that sadly our justice system is not the most perfect system in the world and occasionally people who do not deserve it get sent to prison. When this happens it can sometimes take an army to get them released.
There are stories of past inmates who spent multiple years locked up and when they were released ended up having a decent life. So as a way to give back they donated money or supplies to help the place get books or build a library. When this happens it is a great thing, sadly it does not happen everywhere. Magazines are one thing they do have but once they are used up they become old news.
While it is usually extremely unlikely, there is concern that some of the more intelligent inmates might use these law books to gin the upper hand on the legal system and try to find a loop hole of sorts to get themselves a shorter term. Or worse yet, get themselves out of jail entirely. This being the case some people are against them reading such books.
There are a lot of people who have very strong feelings about the prison system and do not want to help anybody who is there learn to do anything. They figure that if they did not take advantage of the schooling they were given on the outside why should we pity them now and teach them to read. A lot of people agree with that statement.
Books for jails are not always that easy to come by. Because it is a prison there are rarely ever funds for anyone to just go out and purchase books to supply the library with what they might need. Since this is the case they usually rely on donations from various parties to supply the books they require and most times those do not happen enough.
There are cases of big donations taking place every now and again but those are too few and far between to be of any help to enough of the prisons to make a difference. This being said, when it does happen there are cases of the books being either too far gone, damaged, or of the wrong types of materials.
Aside from just giving the prisoners something to do the libraries on the grounds of a prison are harmless. Or so many people think. There are cases of prisoners using the information within those books to mount their own defense and an appeal to their original sentencing. Why some people think this is wrong I am not sure. There are also people who are jailed but are innocent, so prison literature might serve a purpose.
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