Arthur Taylor used books to keep him sane while in solitary confinement. Dr Paul Wood said reading gave him a new outlook on the world while he was behind bars. PHOTO: LINDA ROBERTSONFor Dr Paul Wood, jailed for a murder he committed when he was 18 years old, it took years before he realised the power of reading and writing behind bars. As someone deemed high risk by Corrections, he spent stretches in solitary confinement when reading was his crutch. Dr Wood recalled reading The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and falling in love with the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 23, 2021 16:32 UTC