This service allows the library to adequately serve jail inmates. The Monroe County Correctional Center provides the space for the library within the center, as well as funds for books and other library materials. The Monroe County Public Library provides staff members to open the library three afternoons a week and order the materials. Most of the explosive situations which occur in local jails stem from prisoner idleness and boredom. Library service also helps ease some of the stress caused by incarceration and overcrowding.
All parties benefit from jail library service.
In 1999, over 4,100 patrons used the Jail Library, roughly 80 patrons per week. They checked out 17,034 items. 2059 Page designed by Rachel Bowell.