Inside stories from a prison book group

The the crucial roles that libraries play in a community seem especially clear here in the library at HMP Thameside. Prison rules – to which all UK prisons must adhere – state that every prisoner is entitled to 30 minutes of library browsing time at least once a fortnight. Browsing, however, seems to be the least of it: this library isn’t so much a place of silent, solitary shelf-scanning as a place where books bring people together.
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