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Was part of a church group that helped out at prisons. Many of them were illiterate.... Not sure how many of them can read
by xiaodai 5y ago
Was part of a church group that helped out at prisons. Many of them were illiterate.... Not sure how many of them can read
- tyingq 5y agoThe "American prison system" is a pretty broad brush that includes county jails (people do end up there for months/years), state run facilities, federal facilities, etc. Pretty sure as a whole, most of the prison population can read.
- Supermancho 5y agoIn other threads I've been flamed for the pedantry of conflating prison vs jail. Smart people avoid thinking about the US prison system and will defend their views rather than admitting it's full of hard problems, for which they have no good answers...while criticizing that everyone else is doing it wrong.
- tyingq 5y agoI do agree there are hard problems. But truly free books is easy to solve.
- op00to 5y agoHow can you be “not sure how many of them can read” when in the previous sentence you state “many of them were illiterate”?
- kingcharles 5y agoThe worst thing is those who cannot read. In the county jails I was at for many years there was literally _nothing_ to do except read. Imagine being stuck in your cell for 21 hours a day (average in the jails I was in) and can only stare at the walls because you can't read. Especially worse if you are in a single-man cell and can't even annoy your cellmate all day for a little conversation.