15 November 2007
In brief
A campaign has been launched to put free reading spectacles in police stations. The Justice Organisation, which is behind the push, says detainees are routinely given booklets to read and forms to sign which they may not be able to read properly because they don’t have any belongings—including their reading glasses—with them. Being able to read documentation for a detained person, the group says, is a civil rights issue. A couple of pairs of glasses in a “dusty drawer in a police station”, is not enough, it says. Instead, a branded kit with a range of spectacles and an eye testing chart is needed
