People say no one reads anymore, but I find that's not the case. Prisoners read. I guess they're not given much access to computers.

大家都说现如今已经没有人读书了，照我看，事实并非如此：囚犯们就还在阅读，我猜他们没什么机会可以用上电脑。

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He read historical documents written by past explorers, prisoners of war,pilots, and ship wreck survivors.

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Noel "Razor" Smith, who was in prison for 33 years and is now a writer, said putting TVs into prisoners' cells actually helped reduce violence in prisons, because it gave inmates who could not read or write a way to occupy their time.

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