Prisons: Libraries
(asked on 23rd February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many new titles have been purchased by libraries in each prison establishment in England and Wales in each of the past three years.
This question was answered on 9th March 2015
Prison libraries play a positive role in supporting rehabilitation and resettlement through offering a range of resources and activities, including literacy and reader development work. However, information about the number of different titles stocked, and new titles purchased, by prison libraries is not held centrally and would need to be collated through enquiries at every prison. This would incur disproportionate cost.