![]() ![]() There is clearly an argument about earning certain privileges. Firstly, that prisoners have to earn everything and, secondly, that "illegal things can be sent in parcels". ![]() It seems the Ministry of Justice's argument is two-fold. "It's an astonishingly petty decision," he said. How has it come to this? Overturning all known advantages of literacy and literature, and knowing that one of the few benefits of prison is that prisoners can find an education they mostly lack, the justice secretary has stopped books going into individual prisoners' hands?Įric Allison, the Guardian's prisons correspondent, himself a former prisoner, says it seems that Chris Grayling's tough image is key. ![]() Yet the ban on receiving books is a blanket decision, so no matter how compliant and well behaved you are, no prisoner will be allowed to receive books from the outside." Whatever the Ministry of Justice will now say, no prisoner in the UK can now be sent books by anyone.Īs Frances Crook, director of the Howard League for Penal Reform says in her piece on .uk: "These new restrictions relate to a downgrading of the system of rewards and punishments, ostensibly designed to encourage prisoners to comply with prison rules. ![]()
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