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Services for people in correctional facilities
The jails program provides recreational reading to Multnomah County correctional facilities. Current funding by the Oregon State Library, under a Library Services and Technology Act grant, enables the library to support the educational and literacy efforts of the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. The Books Without Barriers program teaches inmates about early literacy and videotapes them reading stories to their children. Each child is then sent a tape of the parent reading to him or her. The jails program is the responsibility of the library coordinator to jails — with much of the recreational reading material being selected by Joe Kling, volunteer extraordinaire.