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Reading offers Brazilian prisoners quicker escape
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil will offer inmates in its
crowded federal penitentiary system a novel way to shorten
their sentences: four days less for every book they read.
Inmates in four federal prisons holding some of Brazil’s most
notorious criminals will be able to read up to 12 works of
literature, philosophy, science or classics to trim a maximum
48 days off their sentence each year, the government announced.
