Books about Black and Indigenous people, Latinos and the LGBTQ community are often banned in prisons, but prohibited titles vary widely from state to state, studies show, cutting off a lifeline for ...

“This will be my last request since I’ll be released on May 30,” a pinned-up sheet of notebook paper reads at Pensacola’s Open Books Bookstore. The words are scribbled in pencil, but written in all ...

A Mississippi nonprofit is helping bring education to people behind bars one book at a time. Big House Books relies on ...

There is no better way to while away five-to-life than with a good book. Gandhi in his autobiography wrote that he did his best studying in the pokey. It's no surprise that books are a big deal in the ...

BENTONVILLE -- Benton County jailers took almost all the reading material away from the inmates last fall because some of them were destroying the books, according to a sheriff's office official. "As ...

A group of Maryland inmates will meet Monday with the author of this year’s “One Maryland, One Book” selection. Warren St. John, author of “Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One ...

BENTONVILLE -- Benton County Sheriff Shawn Holloway is asking the public to replace inmates' books six months after confiscating almost all the reading material in the jail. The book drive, announced ...

NEW YORK — People who want to send a copy of jailhouse classics like "The Shawshank Redemption" to a loved in a New York prison may soon be out of luck. A new policy, rolled out last month to help ...

Rikers Island inmates are looking for guards in all the wrong places. A desperate inmate stole an official log book over the weekend and instead of it being filled with a correction officer’s shift ...

BENTONVILLE -- Benton County Sheriff Shawn Holloway is asking the public to replace inmates' books six months after confiscating almost all the reading material in the jail. The book drive, announced ...