by Joey Wilson-Brooke
Off the back of the announcement by Chris Grayling in March on the restrictions placed on sending packages to prisoners, YorkPEN decided that this was an issue we wanted to make an event about. It might not seem to have an apparent connection with the ‘Freedom to read, freedom to write’ ethos that we stand by but when you take a step back, you can see that these restrictions have a knock-on effect on a prisoners access to literature.
The restriction prevents family and friends sending packages, with the aim to help reduce searching time by prison guards for illicit items. It seems reasonable on the surface, but consider that this would stop family members being able to send cheaper versions of books not already available in the library, leaving only the more expensive option of sending new books by approved online retailers, like Amazon…
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