It is in this context that prison libraries take on central roles in creating the means and the setting in which lifelong learning can occur.
"Banks was faced with an impossible decision at the time -- either fight the charges and risk spending 41 years to life in prison, or take a plea deal and spend a little over five years of actual prison confinement, " the California Innocence Project says on its website.
The first to be elected was Irish nationalist Countess Markievicz of Sinn Fein, who could not take her seat because she was in prison.
Mr Rodford is currently governor of Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire and will take up his new post on 20 July.
But now prisoners have volunteered to take part in a nationwide programme organised by the prison service and the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland.
Under the terms of the measure those sentenced to life in prison for murder would in future have to take up jobs while incarcerated.
When we critique the actions of police or the positions the public safety unions take, we are not doing so in order to demonize cops or prison guards.
Of course, it is easy to write that sitting behind a comfortable desk, and not, for example, in a remand prison, but I allow myself to take it to its logical conclusion.
In Saturday's statement, the rebels also reiterated their demand that rebel commander Simon Trinidad, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence in the United States, be allowed to take part in the talks.
"We're really afraid that his body won't be able to take this much longer, " said Janis Puracal, who was allowed to visit her brother in prison several months ago.
Take for example former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, a Yanukovich foe, who is languishing in prison and may now be facing further charges.
In a joint statement, the Northern Ireland Office and the Prison Officers' Association confirmed that negotiations would take place over four weeks and would include staffing issues.
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In a statement, he called it "'particularly regrettable" that Pakistan did not heed pleas to take a humanitarian view of the prisoner's case and allow him to return after he had served 20 years in prison.
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