When it comes to libraries, books and learning, our thinking is simple: More is better.
Which is why we applaud last week’s move by Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias to provide, for the first time in years, a significant pot of money — $420,000 — for state prison libraries. It represents, we hope, a small-scale step toward making state prisons a place where inmates routinely turn their lives around, for society’s sake as well as theirs.
