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Brazilian Inmates Can Read Books To Shorten Their Sentences (Not So Much in The US)


This is a pretty cool, innovative program with a lot of potential to pay ongoing dividends.

And of course, the US is doing the opposite with prisons in Pennsylvania where inmates are no longer being allowed any form of print book sent by family members or charities but they can buy overpriced, overly restricted ebooks, conveniently sold by the same company that supplies other technology solutions for the prison.

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