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  • Hardcover: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Scarecrow Press (August 28, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0810854031
  • ISBN-13: 978-0810854031
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 0.9 x 9.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsCri de coeur: Now Is the Time
By kathleen on September 24, 2009
Format: Hardcover
Brenda Vogel has written a book that is a true cri de coeur for a change in direction for prison library services. She calls for a return to compassion and human development rather than punishment and repression. Now is the time for librarian associations like the American Library Association to take action and lobby for Internet connected prisons and jails.
Ms. Vogel is deeply knowledgeable and intense in her commitment to human rights. I teach a course on Librarians and Human Rights. This book will be required reading.
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5.0 out of 5 starsInformative book
By Lea on August 30, 2010
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There are so limited resources about Prison Libraries and this book should be considered as a major event in Prison Library field. I praise the book for its critical stance toward correctional authorities who underestimate and misunderstand the role of library programs for inmates. The Information Skills Training Curriculum is a precious attachment inside the book. Ethical concepts of prison librarianship,its retrospective is very informative part of the book. Also, the book has valuable information about approach to the services in different states. Thank you, Ms. Vogel!
In the next book, I would like to see more practical advises on prison library research, communication between librarians and inmates-patrons, evaluation of prison library services, education of correctional staff about the library programs (the problem that major prison librarians meet daily is alliterated correctional staff).
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4.0 out of 5 starsEye-opening look at the tension between rehabilitation and punishment
By Likecroft on April 25, 2013
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Though this book might be a bit of a slog for anyone not a librarian or working in corrections (or, of course, both), I read it as neither and came away with a much deeper understanding of the U.S. prison system and the tension between rehabilitative services in prisons and just 'maintaining order' and funneling people through the pipeline of doing time.

If you're interested in this tension--of rehabilitation vs. punishment, or even of rehabilitation vs. not even punishment so much as treading water and isolation--and are a devoted reader, or someone interested in the legal and civil right aspects of literacy, education, and access to information, then I would recommend reading this. It's a thorough look into how one professional understood the place of her work in the prison world and her recommendations and calls to action for others who might take up the profession. It's a tough look at prison and literacy, and makes it clear that there's no place in this field for idealism that fails to take the real challenges of both inmates and correctional officers, funding and bureaucracy, into account.
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