A prisoner has successfully challenged restrictions on inmates receiving books from friends and relatives.
A judge declared the restrictions as unlawful after arsonist Barbara Gordon-Jones, 56 - who has a doctorate in English literature - took the matter to the High Court.
Under the current rules prisoners are prevented from receiving parcels unless they have "exceptional circumstances", such as a medical condition.
Gordon-Jones, of Tudeley, near Tunbrige Wells, Kent, suffers from depression and epilepsy and has been diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder.
She is serving an indefinite sentence for the protection of the public and is being held at Send prison near Woking, Surrey.
She was denied legal aid but was able to bring her court challenge because lawyers represented her for free.
The prisoner challenged the section of the new Prison Service Instruction (PSI) she said "imposes substantial restrictions on the ability of prisoners to receive, or have for their use, books".
Mr Justice Collins said the PSI amended the Incentives and Earned Privileges Scheme (IEP).
He said: "I am satisfied that insofar as it includes books in IEP schemes, the PSI is unlawful."
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