Fathers in Winchester Prison have been provided with recording facilities by Hampshire County Council. The Storybook Dads scheme allows prisoners to create their own bedtime story to share with their families using a microphone and minidisc recorder. The stories are downloaded on to a computer so sound effects and music can be added. Inmates can also include personal messages to their children as an introduction to the storytelling.
They are provided with books to read from and are invited to make up their own stories as well.
The scheme was piloted at HM Prison Winchester last summer, but proved especially popular with inmates in the run-up to Christmas. Storybook Dads was originally developed at HM Prison Dartmoor. Hampshire is the first local authority to purchase recording and editing equipment for the project.
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