Originally published: Library Access and Wrongful Conviction Rectification
Publication date: December 7, 2018
Author: Rongjie Lan
Abstract: China’s Public Library Law took effect on January 1, 2018. Not only to the general public, public libraries have a special role for inmates to educate themselves and even help them get exonerated. Some American exoneration cases indicated that prison libraries contributed to the success of innocent inmates regaining freedom. The author advocate for establishing libraries in prisons in China.