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  • ED: No, and in fact, in the jail I worked in, there had been instances of people hiding weapons in the binding and in the hard-backed covers.

    'Running The Books' In A Prison Library 2010

  • ED: No, and in fact, in the jail I worked in, there had been instances of people hiding weapons in the binding and in the hard-backed covers.

    'Running The Books' In A Prison Library 2010

  • One of the controversies that erupts in the Suffolk County prison, where Avi Steinberg works - were the prisoners allowed to have hard-backed books, which he says can be used as armor or indeed sometimes as weapons?

    'Running The Books' In A Prison Library 2010

  • One of the controversies that erupts in the Suffolk County prison, where Avi Steinberg works - were the prisoners allowed to have hard-backed books, which he says can be used as armor or indeed sometimes as weapons?

    'Running The Books' In A Prison Library 2010

  • ED: No, and in fact, in the jail I worked in, there had been instances of people hiding weapons in the binding and in the hard-backed covers.

    'Running The Books' In A Prison Library 2010

  • One of the controversies that erupts in the Suffolk County prison, where Avi Steinberg works - were the prisoners allowed to have hard-backed books, which he says can be used as armor or indeed sometimes as weapons?

    'Running The Books' In A Prison Library 2010

  • The walls were all white and there was enough room for one red floral-print sofa that clashed with the yellow hard-backed chairs at the round wooden dining table.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • However, not all board games have to use tokens to indicate the players or even necessarily use a hard-backed board to indicate the area of game play.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1038 2009

  • Archiving family photos used to mean simply sticking them in a hard-backed album.

    The rise and rise of family photographs 2011

  • ED: No, and in fact, in the jail I worked in, there had been instances of people hiding weapons in the binding and in the hard-backed covers.

    'Running The Books' In A Prison Library 2010

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