Books Behind Bars

Literacy may reduce prison time--and recurring crime.

By Elissa McLaurin

Thursday, September 28, 1995

Prisons today are bursting at the seams and Soledad Correctional Training Facility, with 6,149 inmates (over twice its capacity) in the south part of the county, is no exception.

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