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Books for Prisoners Campaign: major victory as court says shelve this ban English PEN and The Howard League saw a major victory today (Friday 5 December) as the High Court ruled that the ban on books for prisoners was unlawful In his judgment, Mr Justice Collins said: ‘I see no good reason in the light of the importance of books for prisoners to restrict beyond what is required by volumetric control and reasonable measures relating to the frequency of parcels and security considerations.’ The judge added that he did not ‘regard access through the [prison] library services as sufficient’. It was ‘strange’ to refer to books as a privilege.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 09:06:42 +0000

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