Rami Alhames · August, 2012

Latest posts by Rami Alhames from August, 2012

Brazil: Prisoners Get Four Days Off Sentence Per Book Read

  8 August 2012

Recently, the government of Brazil launched a new initiative whereby reading books related to classic national literature, science or philosophy can reduce prisoners' jail sentences. However, according to a 2006 report 8% of the country's inmates were illiterate and 70% hadn't completed primary education.