Archive for the 'prison' Category
Woman Jailed For Overdue Library Book
March 2nd, 2008WISN - “In Beloit, failing to return overdue library books is apparently a serious offense. It landed Keely Givhan behind bars for six days.”
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Words Behind Bars
March 1st, 2008Boston Review - “Do prisoners have a right to read what they want?”
Judge removed after jailing entire courtroom
November 29th, 2007And you thought librarians were uptight about cell phones.
What a strange story (via)
Prison Librar*
October 5th, 2007Mary Rinzel - “So You Want to Become a Prison Librarian?”
Prisons Reverse Decision
September 26th, 2007Neela Banerjee - “Facing pressure from religious groups, civil libertarians and members of Congress, the federal Bureau of Prisons has decided to return religious materials that had been purged from prison chapel libraries because they were not on the bureau’s lists of approved resources.”
Fighting Crime
September 16th, 2007Jeri Krentz - “You’ll need a calculator to count the number of days Margo Fesperman has spent inside the Mecklenburg County jail. With a master’s degree in library and information science, she manages the jail library system. Fesperman’s mission, as she says, is to “fight crime with literacy.”
Book Clubs
September 15th, 2007Heidi Dolamore - “Yesterday I led a couple of book groups at the county juvenile detention facility.”
More on Prison Library Book Weeding
September 14th, 2007Michael Gerson - “In response to a genuine problem, the Bureau of Prisons has managed to be late, clumsy and self-defeating, all at the same time.” (via)
No Freedom To Read
September 9th, 2007Laurie Goodstein - “Behind the walls of federal prisons nationwide, chaplains have been quietly carrying out a systematic purge of religious books and materials that were once available to prisoners in chapel libraries. The chaplains were directed by the Bureau of Prisons to clear the shelves of any books, tapes, CDs and videos that are [...]
“Approved Vendors”
August 17th, 2007Seattle Weekly - “Thanks to a controversial “approved vendor system,” state prisons are slowing the flow of books behind bars.”
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Now, That’s an ILL
August 7th, 2007AP - “A prison library book exchange program led to inmates getting something more than just new reading material. An inmate from Fort Worth and his girlfriend were sentenced to prison after both used the book swap to smuggle drugs to inmates, the U.S. attorney’s office announced Tuesday.”