Promoting Reading in Prisons

In 1998, IPLB signed a Protocol with the Ministry of Justice (through the Directorate-General for Prison Services) aimed at extending the National Reading Promotion Programme to prisons.
Several initiatives have been developed as part of this agreement:

• Purchase and donation of books for prison libraries;
• Programmes to raise awareness of the importance of books and reading;
• Encounters with texts and their authors (weekly or fortnightly sessions over a period of three or four months);
• Reading and writing competitions.