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Part II: The Prison Library as Cultural Connection (2011)

Jordet, Judith. corrections.com.

"Managing a prison library based on demographics and statistics could be tedious and boring, but not when I am passionately pursuing the goal to create the most fertile ground for increasing literacy in the prison population. The two basic questions demographics can tell me is “what are some common characteristics of the target population?” and “How does a prison population compare to the wider culture?” The collection development plan has one objective, to promote reading in an inmate population."

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