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VA: Prison Officials Reverse Ban on Book Program

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

VIRGINIA Prison Officials Reverse Ban on Book Program By Maria Glod Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 17, 2009 Virginia inmates will once again be able to receive free Bibles, dictionaries and other books from a nonprofit group, after state prison officials reversed a recent decision to ban the popular Books Behind Bars program. The 20-year-old effort, run by the Quest Institute in Charlottesville, was halted last month after prison officials said that security risks were too great and that the influx of books created too much work for busy corrections officers. But after protests from supporters, Corrections Department Director Gene M. Johnson said he will allow Books Behind Bars -- which has put as many as 1 million books in prison cells statewide -- to resume...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 18, 2009 (boomark / email).