No Books in Jail
TO West Denied Reading Material

By Megan Kinch; August 31, 2012 – Toronto Media Co-op
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/no-books-jail/12427

(Originally published in Basics Community News)

Don’t even think about reading. That’s the message prisoners are getting after a bureaucratic maze of regulations effectively cuts off access to printed materials in some Toronto-area prisons. The lack of access to reading material is only one example of the conditions [in] prisons generally, where the institution has almost complete impunity to mess with the daily lives of inmates, which also shows in other areas, such as the lack of respect for fasting

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