James King: Spotlight on a special service: Prison Libraries
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This document summarizes James King's presentation at the CILIPS conference in June 2015 about offender learning and prison libraries in Scotland. The presentation discusses the vision and mission of helping to transform lives of offenders through custody, order, care, and opportunity. It highlights the importance of literacy and education by quoting Kofi Annan and others. The presentation then evaluates several Scottish prisons, including HMP Grampian, HMP Perth, HMP Barlinnie, and HMP & YOI Cornton Vale, focusing on library location, environment, resources, and community engagement.
James King: Spotlight on a special service: Prison Libraries
- 1. JAMES KING HEAD OF OFFENDER LEARNING CILIPS CONFERENCE, DUNDEE JUNE 2015
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- 3. 3 Our Vision: Helping to build a safer Scotland - Unlocking Potential - Transforming Lives OUR MISSION: Providing services that help to transform the lives of people in our care so they can fulfil their potential and become responsible citizens.
- 4. 4 We deliver this through: Custody : Managing safe and secure custodial environments Order : Providing stability and order that helps offenders to transform their lives Care : Supporting wellbeing and treating with respect and humanity all in our care Opportunity : Providing opportunities which develop the potential of our staff, our partnerships and the people in our care
- 5. 5 “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty…………..Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.” Kofi Annan 1996
- 6. 6 Award Winning Prison Magazine, HMP Shotts, near Glasgow
- 7. 7 PRISON LIBRARIES: What did we find? • LOCATION AND ACCESS • INTERIOR ENVIRONMENT • ACCESS TO INFORMATION • WELCOME, FRIENDLY AND ATTENTIVE • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT • STOCK •SERVICES AND SERVICES PLANNING
- 8. 8 HMP Grampian: Setting the standard
- 9. 9 HMP Perth: Behind the Lines, community links
- 10. 10 HMP Perth
- 11. 11 HMP Barlinnie, Glasgow is Scotland’s largest prison holding around 1,400 prisoners.
- 12. 12 HMP Barlinnie: Key links with the Mitchell
- 13. 13 HMP & YOI CORNTON VALE
- 14. 14 HMP & YOI CORNTON VALE
- 16. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire” William Butler Yeats
- 17. “Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences” Robert Louis Stevenson
- 18. 18 Thank you