"I'd write an 'X' for my name". Prisoner's life changed by learning to read and write....

Mar 05, 2015, 11:32 AM

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, March 2015)

A Prisoner at a women's jail in Staffordshire has told BBC Radio Stoke that learning to read has changed her life.

Illiterate inmates at HMP Drake Hall near Eccleshall are taught by their peers to read and write.

Emma Thomas met 52-year-old Doreen -- who is serving a two year sentence for robbery....