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- Title
Youth Empowerment Through the Use of Prison Libraries: Case Studies of the Tangerang Juvenile Detention Center Library and the Salemba Detention Center Library in Indonesia.
- Authors
Rahmi; Lo, Patrick
- Abstract
It is widely acknowledged that libraries play a positive and important role in the lives of prisoners, jus t as they do with other people. They do not only provide resources to support various educational, recreational and welfare programs, but they also create opportunities for prisoners to acquire new skills, skills that they may need once they leave prison. According to the Ministry of Law and Human Rights of Indonesia, as of 2013, there are 4,622 children in 16 different prisons in Indonesia. Such statistics show that there is a great need for well-resourced and well-staffed libraries inside these prisons in order to support the educational, recreational, and psychological needs of imprisoned children. The purpose of this study is to examine the practical, social, recreational, educational, psychological, and spiritual needs of detained juvenile delinquents in regards to using the collections, facilities and services at the Tangerang Juvenile Detention Center Library and the Salemba Detention Center Library.
- Subjects
INDONESIA; PRISON libraries; SERVICES for prisoners; DETENTION facilities; HUMAN rights; YOUTH
- Publication
JLIS.it: Italian Journal of Library, Archives & Information Science, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 1, p183
- ISSN
2038-5366
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.4403/jlis.it-10082