This is not related to electronic books, but I found the idea so original that I take my chances of posting it here nevertheless.
The Brazilian governments have found a new way to let the inmates of crowded prisons shorten their sentence - by reading books, the inmates can shorten their sentence by four days for each book they read.
The goal: educate the prisoners so they leave the prison as better persons.
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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.
Prisoners will have up to four weeks to read each book and write an essay which must "make correct use of paragraphs, be free of corrections, use margins and legible joined-up writing," said the notice published on Monday in the official gazette.
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