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<p> </p><p> </p><p>On reception, prisoners may retain in possession authorised property
appropriate to their Incentives and Earned Privileges level, subject to the limitations
in place on the prison's facility list and overarching controls on the total volume
of property held.</p><p> </p><p>Prisoners may hold up<em> to 12 books in their cell
at any one time and additional volumes may be stored locally at the prison. </em></p><p>
</p><p> </p><p>Restrictions are applied through local discretion where a book would
be inappropriate due to a prisoner's offence type, or where the book is itself unsuitable,
such as where it gives advice on avoiding detection or how to commit offences, or
is pornographic or extremist. This is a matter for individual Governors and the information
cannot be collected without incurring disproportionate cost.</p>
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