The BBC recently looked at how reading classic literature can help those in prison from reoffending.
From the piece...
Mr North says literature also helped addicts and other sick people.
He said: "Literature is an incredibly broad thing and heals all of us all the time.
"We're interested in how you deliver it in a highly charged way to get a result."
Mary Stephenson, formerly writer in residence at Channings Wood prison in Exeter, said she had seen at least two prisoners change after reading classic novels.
"It made them realise they weren't thick or stupid and they were just as much an audience for that kind of writing as anyone else.
"That gives them a great boost and a lot of them started to do education."
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and the modern adventure novel Touching the Void by Joe Simpson all resonated with offenders in different ways.
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