Andrew Bingham – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Bingham on 2014-04-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether prisoners at HM Prison Manchester have access to (a) library books on specialist subjects and (b) educational courses.

Jeremy Wright

Prison library providers ensure that the range of reading and reference material available in each library reflects the needs and diverse nature of the prisoners held. They enable prisoners to receive, subject to the constraints of operating within a custodial environment, a service equivalent to that provided for library users in the community.

The prison library at HMP Manchester holds books on a number of specialist subjects and will consider requests for others where there is a particular need.