Court calls on IPS to publish inmates‘ book rules

03.04.2012                      11.Nissan. 5772

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Court calls on IPS to publish inmates' book rules

Decision ends three-year legal battle by prisoners for access to reading material.

The Supreme Court on Monday said the Israel Prisons Service should publish amended regulations regarding the number of books prisoners are permitted to have.
The call came in a ruling on an appeal the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and two women prisoners filed in 2009 against a Tel Aviv District Court ruling on the issue of inmates’ access to reading material….