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 Posted: 18:43 - 17 Mar 2007  Post subject: Read up and pass your bike test when you leave prison? |
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I was looking at borrowing a book to help me pass the bike test from the library and was surprised to see a copy of a book available at 'Wealstun Closed Prison'
14 Book The official DSA guide to riding : the essential skills / written and compil. - [5th ed.] Request this Item
Publication Date: 2005 Control Number: 0115526447
Wealstun Closed Prison 629.284 Adult non fiction Available
This made me think of the Great Escape film with Steve McQueen getting out of the POW camp on a bike.
I'm sure someone can better this pun.
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| Posted: 19:23 - 18 Mar 2007 Post subject: |
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I'm not in prison (nor have ever been). I was pointing out that whilst I was looking for a library book related to riding, I had seen a book available at a prison.
I find the idea that someone could make use of this book in prison amazing.
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| Quote: | Okay, perhaps my use of the words that someone who can't afford to buy the riding book , was poor judgement. However, I would rather the book in question was available to the general public where it is of practical use and not to a person in prison who has no access to a bike.
Surely books that would help offenders obtain jobs on release should be readily available?
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It may well be accessible to the public , many libraries run a biblio exchange system , ie if you can't
find the book on the shelves they will contact another library and borrow that book for a nominal fee
usually postage costs.
Bury area has a free exchange system, for those who don't want to travel for libraries in the grt Manchester
area
Universities also run such a system, Manchester libraries are open to all N West university libraries,
it wasn't free though and in my university days before this funky labour saving journal searching
system which I forget the name of, I used to get loads of books from other universities.
for big ass books which are uneconomical to transport they'll scan if for you for 50p a page.
So that just cus that book is inside a prison (how the hell did you find it anyway?) , doesn't mean
you can't borrow it.
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| polarman wrote: | Okay, perhaps my use of the words that someone who can't afford to buy the riding book , was poor judgement. However, I would rather the book in question was available to the general public where it is of practical use and not to a person in prison who has no access to a bike.
Surely books that would help offenders obtain jobs on release should be readily available? |
They are. No reason why the cons shouldn't read something they'd like to, rather than something that they need to. For a start, happy cons mean less injured officers. We don't want Resurrection getting 'potted' now, do we?
https://www.guardian.co.uk/prisons/story/0,,1671986,00.html
Rumour has it that the 2 riots at my place were caused by one of my officers attempting to confiscate a '98 R1 poster from a detainee......
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