Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Servicing the prisons

A library volunteer works at Rikers Island. We delivered books to both solitary confinement and two different "houses," which are the names of blocks within the building. The inmates in solitary confinement are allowed to request books off a list, so we filled these requests from the "library" within this particular building, which was really just two tall shelves of paperback books in the back of the Chaplain's office. More... (Via HufPo)

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