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Improve prison library provision and access

Submitted on Monday 31st March 2014

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Improve prison library provision and access

Additional Information

The Ministry of Justice has decided to restrict posted items to prisoners, including books. Reading and the access to books is an essential part of prisoner rehabilitation but the provision of books through the prison library service has been drastically reduced. This petition calls for the Ministry to drastically improve resource, access and funding for all UK prison libraries.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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