I just dont understand Chris Graylings logic in this. Its a security issue apparently but unless hes trying to cut the staff that check the parcels, why has it suddenly become an issue?? The Liberty article is well balanced and to quote a bit of it: ...prison can be an opportunity either to become grossly influenced by malign individuals even further...or to gain some skills, judgement, backbone (as opposed to bravado) and promise, which can be taken out into the world upon release. Reading skills can contribute to ensuring that, in time, released prisoners might build a stronger and better life for themselves than they had before their sentence, not because of an increase in something nebulous and romantic like dignity but because literacy skills are vital to worldly progress.... Furthermore I have been told directly by women prisoners with initially low literacy skills how fundamental reading has been to them. One woman told me, My mum didnt know how to read or write, I didnt know how to read or write, that was just the way it was. So I taught myself in prison.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:51:13 +0000
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