An article from The Pavement Magazine, about how a prison reading group sparked a revolution.
This shows how recovery can take many forms and this article serves as an example of how something as simple as reading can become a recovery activity.
About The Pavement Magazine
The Pavement is a small charity, founded in the spring of 2005. They distribute The Pavement in London, Scotland, and they plan to launch in other regions. In London alone, they deliver 8,500+ copies of the Pavement to over 70 hostels, day centres, homeless surgeries, soup-runs and libraries. By using volunteer journalists and homelessness sector professionals, as well as work from the country’s best cartoonists (many of them Private Eye contributors), they’ve achieved a balance of news, features, humour and service listings unlike other publications.
Their journalists cover the news from the streets or news affecting the streets, and they often deal with topics ignored by the mainstream press. Alongside this, other professionals provide features on health, foot care, legal advice and life in hostels, with the back pages given over to The List, a regularly updated directory of homeless services.