chennai introducing good reading habits among inmates at puzhal prison would help bring about a change in their attitude and character prison director ashutosh shukla saidto facilitate this the prison department in coordination with tamil nool veliyeedu matrum nool virpanai membaattu kuzhumam a trust supporting tamil publishers and publishing launched a threeday book fair on wednesday for prisoners at puzhal jailinmates were allowed to visit the hall at prison1 to select booksinaugurating the event writer s ramakrishnan spoke about the importance of reading which he said would help them make the right decision at the right time prison 2 superintendent k p senthamaraikannan presided over the programmebooks ranging from fiction nonfiction literature science and astrology are available prisoners can buy books at the fair using their prisoners cash property which they accumulate by working while in prison said prison1 superintendent v rukmani priyadarshini prison officials t tamil selvan and p dharmaraj were also present at the inaugurationthe valedictory function will be held on friday at 3pm