Why am I getting ragged on. It just takes me a little bit to get my point across. If you have another way to post it I am all ears. And free books.

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 hours ago

    Are you asking if there is a legitimate library or stock kept, if so not in my experience. More of a there are books over there outside the cell area that you can gain access too to grab a book with supervision. They weren’t set up with spines facing out or anything, just a table, with some books stacked at the back. I’m sure they were different outside every cell block. (And that was the good behavior block that allowed people to leave to do work during the weekdays)

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      22 hours ago

      Kinda. They keep roadblocking me from even have a look into what I am spending my spare time and effort for. My brother was their about 2 years ago and the only books they had were a tiny cart of law books that you could only access at about midnight for 15 minutes.

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        19 hours ago

        You have the answer to your question right there. They won’t let you look at it because they don’t have one and are not at all interested in having one.

        Prisons in the US are intended to punish people, not rehabilitate them. If you actually want change you’ll likely need to petition the governor or state representatives to sponsor legislation to make properly stocked libraries a requirement.

        But good luck because that would be “being soft on crime” which is political suicide in many places.

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        17 hours ago

        Won’t your donation be even more meaningful if it turns out they don’t have much now?

        Why do you need to know that they already have a good library before you’ll help improve their library?