Why prison libraries matter for inmates, jailers and book donors

TOOELE — It's 9.15 a.m. when a dark green, 1993 Toyota truck that's logged 160,000 miles pulls into Tooele County jail parking lot. A tall, thin woman in khaki cargo pants and a black T-shirt gets out to unload boxes of donated books and cart them into the men's jail library.
Once the fiction and nonfiction have been mingled with the existing stock, she admires the 1,300 titles.
"I'm into pretty. Pretty books are happy books," says Toby Lafferty, who then bids the books farewell that Octob