More major names join fight against restrictions, while justice secretary claims move is what public wants
Members of Britain's literary establishment have combined to condemn Chris Grayling's ban on sending books to prisoners.
Alan Bennett, Salman Rushdie, Carol Ann Duffy, David Hare and even Jeffrey Archer novelist, former Tory party chairman and ex-prisoner declared support for a campaign by the Howard League for Penal Reform urging the justice secretary to drop his ban on family and friends sending books and other essentials to prisoners.
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