{"id":101,"date":"2012-01-27T10:58:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T10:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersadvice.org.uk\/?p=101"},"modified":"2012-01-27T10:58:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T10:58:16","slug":"pas-successfully-defends-prisoners-right-to-keep-legal-reference-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prisonersadvice.org.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/27\/pas-successfully-defends-prisoners-right-to-keep-legal-reference-book\/","title":{"rendered":"PAS successfully defends prisoner\u2019s right to keep legal reference book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>PAS recently won an Ombudsman\u2019s judgement on behalf of a prisoner at HMP Wakefield<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>, who was being refused possession of a book he had bought because it was not obtained from an approved supplier. The book \u2013 \u2018Prisoners \u2013 Law and Practice\u2019 \u2013 had been purchased via an advert in a prisoners\u2019 newspaper by means of a cash disbursement, as agreed beforehand with the prison, but when it arrived it was placed in stored property. There was, however, nothing in the book\u2019s contents that made it inappropriate for the prisoner to own, and it was also freely available in the prison library.<\/p>\n<p>The Ombudsman upheld the complaint. There was nothing inappropriate in the content of the book, and the prison\u2019s decision was unnecessarily bureaucratic. 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