• The term prison library refers to libraries that provide educational, legal, recreational and other resources in correctional facilities throughout the...
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    many prison libraries being shut down. Meanwhile, many nations that have historically lacked prison libraries are starting to develop them. Prison libraries...
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    13°11′07″E / 52.52111°N 13.18528°E / 52.52111; 13.18528 Spandau Prison was a former military prison located in the Spandau borough of West Berlin (present-day...
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    Sing Sing (redirect from Sing Sing (prison))
    also created a religious library in the prison, with the purpose of teaching correct moral principles. In 1844, the New York Prison Association was inaugurated...
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  • HM Prison Birmingham is a Category B men's prison in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, England, operated by HM Prison and Probation Service. HM Prison...
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  • through prison service employed nursing staff, with a GP and on call service provided by the healthcare staff provider (Medacs). The prison library was the...
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    Education. Law libraries may be found in courts (e.g. judge's chambers), legislatures (e.g. the Law Library of Congress), prison libraries, government departments...
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    world. Inmate library services are provided by the main Prison Library and four outcamp libraries. The prison is part of the Inter-Library Loan Program...
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    access information and library services. Some organizations, such as the Anarchist Black Cross, seek the total abolishment of the prison system without any...
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    formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco...
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    through D-block – the warden's office, visitation room, the library, and the barber shop. The prison cells typically measured 9 feet (2.7 m) by 5 ft (1.5 m)...
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    Books to Prisoners (category Prison-related organizations)
    the Prison Library Project which was founded in Durham, North Carolina but relocated to Claremont, California in 1986. Since then, dozens of prison book...
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  • Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (category Novels set in prison)
    the prison administration and assists with tax returns and loans. He is transferred to the prison library, in which he launders money for the prison administration...
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    Newgate Prison was a prison at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey, just inside the City of London, England, originally at the site of Newgate...
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    and instead seeks a degree of sovereignty for black community. Ohio prison library included Black Power in its list of books in 1975. Where Do We Go From...
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    The penal system of Japan (including prisons) is part of the criminal justice system of Japan. It is intended to resocialize, reform, rehabilitate and...
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    The Stanford prison experiment (SPE), also referred to as the Zimbardo prison experiment (ZPE), was a controversial psychological experiment performed...
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    Prison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, improve the effectiveness of a penal system, reduce recidivism or implement alternatives...
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    operated by His Majesty's Prison Service, and is located next to HM Prison Low Newton, a closed women's prison. The prison has been nicknamed "Monster...
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    south of Santa Fe, was the most violent prison riot in U.S. history. Inmates took complete control of the prison and twelve officers were taken hostage...
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  • set, Hollywood elite and prison inmates alike". The book has been reported to be much requested in American prison libraries. Rapper 50 Cent stated that...
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    The Ministry of Public Security Qincheng Prison (Chinese: 公安部秦城监狱) is a maximum-security prison located in Qincheng Village, Xingshou, Changping District...
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    La Moye also has a library which was opened in November 2007. In July 2005, a report from HM Inspector of Prisons stated the prison had 172 inmates, with...
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  • made by the respondents, specifically citing the lack of an adequate prison library system reason enough for a trial. Due to precedent established in, first...
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    dim 5-by-7-foot cell, Dutton read a book of plays he'd found in the prison library. He was transfixed, transported and ultimately transformed. Widener...
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    August 28, 2017, a mass shooting occurred at the Clovis-Carver Library, a public library in downtown Clovis, New Mexico, U.S. The gunman fatally shot two...
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    Barnimstrasse women's prison was a women's prison that existed between 1868 and 1974 in Barnimstraße in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin, which belonged...
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  • Prison rape or jail rape is sexual assault of people while they are incarcerated. The phrase is commonly used to describe rape of inmates by other inmates...
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  • Salem Central Prison is a prison located near Hastampatti in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. This Prison was constructed during the year 1862. The construction...
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    Magazine in Williamsburg, Virginia." It was converted into a library in 1873. The small prison cells which once housed prisoners now contain old colonial...
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