How books are helping often violent prisoners turn into better men
23-09-2015 by - Leave a Comment
Nine men, some of them heavily tattooed and all of them in identical bottle-green, prison-issue sweats sit at a rectangular table in rapt silence. It's 1.30pm – story time. Susan McLaine, a petite and softly spoken volunteer, reads from a typed a4 sheet, carefully pronouncing each syllable. She doesn't project or exaggerate her inflections; this is not a performance. McLaine reads to the men in her capacity as a bibliotherapist, for whom literature is a therapeutic tool.  |
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