Washington: “First State Library For Incarcerated Youth to Open in January”
From KING5.com:
The first state library for incarcerated youth will open at Echo Glen Children’s Center next month.
Felice Upton, the assistant secretary for juvenile rehabilitation, said at any given time the state has about 450 youth at its facilities.
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When Upton arrived at Echo Glen Children’s Center, she said the same services were not available.
“There’s no human in the library and there’s nobody to connect with kids and teach them that they can find and lose themselves in a book,” Upton said.
Upton reached out to Institutional Library Services (ILS), which agreed that there was a need for a full-time, experienced librarian to be on campus.
A partnership between the Department of Children, Youth and Families, the Secretary of State’s Office, and Washington State Library, ILS is why the first state library for incarcerated youth is about to open.
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See Also: South Carolina: “New Charleston County Library Will Help Rehabilitate Teens at Juvenile Jail, Sheriff Says” (via The Post and Courier)”
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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