Yoga tops list as prison system’s library service cost €230,000 to operate last year

The prison system’s library service cost €230,000 to operate last year with the spend including books on cocaine smuggling, yoga, pilates — and boredom.

Yoga tops list as prison system’s library service cost €230,000 to operate last year

The Irish Prison Service was not able to state what the most popular books loaned out were in 2016 but was able to reveal the identity of the books purchased by its library service.

They included the best selling Cocaine Confidential — True Stories Behind The World’s Most Notorious Narcotic by Wensley Clarkson and The Cocaine Diaries — A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare by Jeff Farrell and Paul Keany.

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