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 Category B adult male prison situated in East Yorkshire. This private prison was opened in 1992 and is run by GSL

LIBRARY FACILITY

At HMP Wolds the library is a popular place where prisoners can borrow books or story-tapes, or read magazines and newspapers in peace. It is staffed by a professional librarian who is helped by two prisoner library assistants. The library opens six days a week and two evenings.

HMP Wolds library is owned and run by GSL. It is arranged to be as much like a normal branch library as possible. All prisoners have access to the library at least twice per week, where they can borrow books and story-tapes for two weeks at a time. The library holds the usual collection of materials - reference books, non-fiction books, fiction books as well as the story tapes - but is naturally tailored to meet the specific needs of the prison population.
 

a popular place, where loss and damage of stock is small.
A popular place, where loss and damage of stock is
small.

To this end the library stocks a range of foreign language materials, including newspapers and magazines, and has a large collection of prison law information and the standard legal reference works that all prison libraries must stock. We also have access to Braille and Moon materials.

The library is often the only resource within a prison for inmates to continue their informal independent learning, especially those who do not feel that full-time education would suit them. The Library is the central access point for prison law information, and for leaflets and booklets such as Criminal Cases Review Commissions, or the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.

We positively encourage prisoners who have previously lacked confidence in their reading ability by providing a wide ranging collection of adult literacy materials, sometimes called 'easy reading', where existing titles by authors such as Stephen King and John Grisham are rewritten using a limited vocabulary. Other non-fiction adult literacy titles are also stocked to encourage the reading habit.

HMP Wolds has a library Committee, where representatives from each of the living units come together to discuss the library provision and offer new ideas or solutions to problems. The library issues a questionnaire on a regular basis to all of the prison population, and encourages feedback wherever possible.