Inmates of Guys Marsh Prison have developed a computer program to aid people with learning difficulties to read, by scanning text and then printing an appropriate image above each word.
Christmas 1998 profiled the work of the prison inmates who, supported by the Inside Out Trust, were repairing bicycles for charity.
At the time, Lynis Williams was teaching in Walton Leigh, a local school for children with learning difficulties.
Maintaining the school's special bicycles was proving something of a challenge.
She contacted the Trust about the article.
The inmates brought their skills to bear and solved the problem.
However, it didn't stop there. While delivering the repaired cycles, the Trust Director was surprised by the specialised nature of the books in Walton Leigh's library. In fact, they were made by Lynis' father painstakingly gluing little images onto sheets of text. The Inside Out Trust took up an additional challenge to make the process easier. Guys Marsh Prison's Braille Unit developed a program to do this in a fraction of the time it took before. It is now available on the web, for a small donation.
