What Were the Processes and Outcomes of Offering Shared Reading as an Intervention for Veterans in Prison?

Abstract The charity Reading Force encourages Forces families to read together in order build social, emotional, and mental well-being offset the impact of changes separations routine military life. They distribute reading scrapbooks free books encourage work on them together. It was suggested that a version project might usefully be developed for veterans prison, whose experience many same issues. Scrapbook Dads housed Endeavour Wing at Parc Prison, South Wales. materials were adapted use by prisoners their families. had just been distributed when pandemic struck, visiting social/educational activities cancelled, prison went into lockdown. With readily available, heavily used staff seek maintain prisoner morale support family connectivity. This paper charts process, comments what learned, makes recommendations how shared can prisons future.