Exploring the Roles and Practices of Libraries in Prisons

Introduction; Jane Garner

Part 1. Library programs and services

Chapter 1. Exploring the rehabilitative role of the prison library: addressing sensitive information needs via cultural activities; Cheryl Canning and Steven Buchanan

Chapter 2. Expanding library service in jails and prisons through hip hop. Meditation, and creativity; Kim McNeil Capers, Jill Anderson, and Nili Ness

Part 2. Prison libraries and literacy learning

Chapter 3. Libraries Tasmania Prison Library Literacy Service: practitioner reflection; Iona Johnson

Chapter 4. Power to the people: public libraries using critical information literacy pedagogy in prisons; Emilie Hancock

Part 3. Censorship

Chapter 5. Collaboration among prison libraries, public, and academic libraries and the impact of censorship; Dale Monobe, Bobbie Bushman, and Sarah McCall

Chapter 6. Books behind bars: cases of censorship in two South Mississippi prisons; Jennifer Elaine Steele

Part 4. Prison libraries around the world

Chapter 7. Prison librarianship and prisoner education: a case study from Northern Ireland; Jayne Finlay and Jessica Bates

Chapter 8. Exploring juvenile justice facility library provision in Australia and South Carolina, USA; Jane Garner

Chapter 9. Reading behind bars: results of a study into reading interests and library use of prisoners in Croatian correctional facilities; Meri Bajic, Martina Dragija Ivanovic, and Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic

Chapter 10. Experiencing prison libraries in Sri Lanka: drawbacks and potential; Padma Bandaranayake

Chapter 11. Books open worlds for people behind bars: Library Services in Germany's prisons ranging from local best practice examples and regional experiences in North Rhine-Westphalia to steadily growing internationality; Gerhard Peschers

Part 5. Future views for prison libraries

Chapter 12. Mandatory minimums: staffing correctional libraries; Erin Boyington and Renee Barnes

Chapter 13. Patron-centered services: disrupting the narrative of reformation and reading American jails and prisons; Jeanie Austin and Emily Jacobson

Part 6. Voices from the inside

Chapter 14. Normalisation in the prison library; Tina Malen Hansen

Chapter 15. Escaping into the prison library; Damien Linnane

Chapter 16. "What a difference it made to my life": an interview with an Australian prison library user; Anonymous